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As a nation, America is at its best when we are thinking and making things and exporting to the world.
It's understood in Minnesota that we're going to start losing businesses if we can't find more workers.
You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.
Loretta Lynch is supremely qualified to be our nation's top cop, and she should be confirmed immediately.
In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.
I never was a great sports player. In fact, in fourth grade, I had the second to the worst softball throw.
Rebuilding our relationship with Cuba would be a win for American business and a win for the Cuban people.
I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota - it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.
When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.
I have worked positively and successfully with Senator Sessions on issues like adoption and human trafficking.
When you look back at your own story, you may find out that not every 't' was crossed and every 'i' was dotted.
There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.
We can't just say the right thing on lowering the cost of prescription drugs: we have to do the right thing, too.
We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm.
With the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs, American taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for medicine going to waste.
I have a dream that, one day, maybe we'll have more women in the Senate than there are victims of Harvey Weinstein's harassment.
Women politicians tend to lead by being accountable for results. We focus on goals and outcomes. You can't get by on just swagger.
Where there's a lack of competition - as we saw with Mylan Pharmaceutical's virtual monopoly on EpiPen - price increases often follow.
Times change, and right now what people need is, they need to be able to send their kids to college, they need to able to buy a house.
As the ranking member of the Rules Committee, I'm particularly concerned about ensuring our elections are safe from foreign interference.
In my early campaigns, people would sometimes come up to me at a grocery store or at a shopping mall and say, 'I know you from somewhere.'
We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.
Indeed, in strengthening our security, boosting our economy, and protecting our environment, Canada is our friend, neighbor, partner, and ally.
It doesn't take a bruise or a broken bone for a child to be a victim of domestic violence. Kids who witness domestic violence are victims, too.
If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone else can be a U.S. senator.
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.
Women are focused on getting things done and bring fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to a political system that's crying out for change.
When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.
It's time we update the laws so that online platforms are held to the same transparency standards as other companies that sell political advertisements.
Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
I think there's a lot of Democrats that would favor reducing the corporate tax rate as long as we find a way to close loopholes so we have a way to pay for it.
I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.
To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.
My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.
One thing is certain: we will not be successful in this fight against ISIS and other extremist groups unless countries in the region are a major part of the coalition.
I'm a former prosecutor. And for me, the integrity of the justice system is all about the fact that these men and women go to work every day to be there for our country.
Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.
I actually went to law school with Jim Comey. We were in the same class, and he was respected by our classmates just like he was respected by the agents that he supervised.
It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that climbed too far out on a limb with no way to return.
You cannot compare any leaders in America to what Vladimir Putin has done. This is a man and a regime that has taken down a passenger plane in Ukraine, killing hundreds of people.
I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.
As an intern for Vice President Walter Mondale, I arrived the first day ready to write policy memos and change the world... but my assignment was doing an inventory of the furniture.
I am endorsing Barack Obama because he is a new kind of leader: he speaks with a different voice; he brings a new perspective and inspires a real excitement from the American people.
You have a Republican House, close numbers in the Senate, a Democratic president. If we're going to move forward at all as a country, we're going to have to do it by standing together.
It's an uphill battle to help our kids learn to make good food decisions - particularly when they are too often presented with an a la carte lunch room choice of french fries or yogurt.
If Congress continues to sit on its hands, and the drug companies continue to stash cash in their stockings, Americans will be forever bound in the Jacob Marley-like chains of high prices.
As a U.S. Senator, I've tried my best to practice politics the way I think it's supposed to be practiced - always looking for common ground and truly enjoying the people I meet along the way.
It is illegal for foreign entities to buy political ads in the United States. But that didn't stop the purchase of thousands of political ads on Facebook, paid for - in rubles - by foreigners.
I am under no illusion that amending the Voting Rights Act in Congress will be easy, but with bipartisan calls for legislation to address it, I'm confident we are moving in the right direction.
We've got great potential in our country and the only way we're going to make sure kids are getting the degrees that they need, make sure we're getting through that red tape, is by working together.