When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.

There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'

When a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules, you should change the nominee.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?