If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. It takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality. Hopefully, it`s a reminder that elections matter. I think it`s important for us to let him make his decisions, and I think the American people will judge over the course of the next couple of years whether they like what they see.

Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.

In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

Shooting in Orlando is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country. And no act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime.