Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

The fallout from the Supreme Court halfway killing Obamacare would likely be more serious than conservatives believe...Even their own base, which has been told relentlessly that Obamacare represents the end of the America they love, might start to demand a fix once it becomes clear just what they’re missing - and what all those blue states with their own exchanges are getting.

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

I don't support everything Bernie Sanders supports, but I support most of it: universal health care, reining in Wall Street, fighting climate change, reversing the growth of income inequality, and so forth. If we could accomplish all this in a couple of years, I'd be delighted. But we can't.

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.