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It is in the interest of every American to get to the bottom of this matter, wherever the investigation leads.
Farewell speech to the U.S. Senate (2018)
We must never regard as normal the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals.
Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)
If I have been critical, it is because I believe it is my obligation to do so.
Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)
To be very clear, to call the Russia matter a "hoax" — as the president has many times — is a falsehood.
Farewell speech to the U.S. Senate (2018)
Leadership does not knowingly encourage or feed ugly or debased appetites in us. Leadership lives by the American creed, "E pluribus unum." From many one.
Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)
I rise today to say: enough. We must dedicate ourselves to making sure that the anomalous never becomes the normal.
Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)
In that way and over time, we can justify almost any behavior and sacrifice any principle. I am afraid that this is where we now find ourselves.
Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)
Humanity is not a zero sum game. When we have been at our most prosperous, we have been at our most principled, and when we do well, the rest of the world does well.
Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)
Anger and resentment and blaming groups of people for our problems might work politically in the short term, but it's a dangerous impulse in a pluralistic society, and we know from history that it's an impulse that, once acted upon, never ends well.
Conscience of a Conservative (2017)
A major difference between politicians and the free press is that the press usually corrects itself when it gets something wrong. Politicians don't.
Farewell speech to the U.S. Senate (2018)
Together, united in the purpose to do our jobs under the Constitution, without regard to party or party loyalty, let us resolve to be allies of the truth — and not partners in its destruction.
Farewell speech to the U.S. Senate (2018)
I'm announcing today that my service in the Senate will conclude at the end of my term in early January 2019.
Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)
I will not be complicit or silent.
Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)
What might seem like a casual and routine untruth — so casual and routine that it has by now become the white noise of Washington — is in fact a serious lapse in the defense of our country.
Farewell speech to the U.S. Senate (2018)
Humility helps, character counts. Leadership does not knowingly encourage or feed ugly or debased appetites in us. Leadership lives by the American creed, “E pluribus unum.” From many one. American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did, sees the family of man.
I rise today, to talk about the truth, and its relationship to democracy. For without truth, and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, Mr. President, our democracy will not last.
Farewell speech to the U.S. Senate (2018)
It is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end. In this century, a new phrase has entered the language to describe the accommodation of a new and undesirable order, that phrase being "the new normal."
Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)
At a moment when it seems that our democracy is more defined by our discord and our dysfunction than by our own values and principles, let me begin by noting the somewhat obvious point that these offices that we hold are not ours indefinitely.
Speech on not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate (2017)