I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world.

It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent.

The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full and fair debate, receive a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.

Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal.

Some contend that, by fulfilling our promise to the American people, we're somehow trying to go back to the way things were before ObamaCare - which we all know is untrue.

As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team.

We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first.

I hope in the end that people will remember what Reagan said: that if he could get 80 percent of what he wanted, you call it a win and move on.

I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president.

I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.