The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.

I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened.

I think we have to stop using the expression "alt-right." It's ridiculous. It's racist, fascist, nationalist.

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.