Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

The only way we're gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.

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.

The thing I'd want people to say about me is that, in some way, I helped bring the Senate and the Congress back to what it used to be, the people's branch of government, doing things that made a difference in people's lives. I have devoted my life to government.

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.