Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs.

We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

What [Bernie] Sanders has done is he's focused the nation on the fact that these things are not inevitable. They are the result of policies. We can do better to create an economy that works well for working Americans.

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.