I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.

We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We should debate whether or not we are going to relinquish our rights, or whether or not we are going to have a full and able debate over whether or not we can live within the Constitution, or whether or not we have to go around the Constitution.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.