When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

Cuba harbor fugitives of American justice. There are people living on the island of Cuba who have violated American law, including those who have stolen millions of dollars from Medicare fraud in South Florida and have fled to Cuba. Those are three reasons right there to care about what is happening on the island of Cuba, which happens to be 90 miles from our shores, basically a neighboring country.

Donald Trump is not a Republican. Donald Trump is not a conservative. Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history, basically a con job, where he's trying to take over the Republican Party by telling people he's someone who he is not.

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.

We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.