Members Of The United States Senate

"I’m grateful that I have faith that provides perspective. This is important work, but I always have to remember that there is even a higher calling: serving God. We serve our country, but ultimately I serve God in what I do day to day. It would be difficult to serve here without being grounded in faith."

"We've seen what Big Government looks like. No one would have thought that the IRS would turn against the American people, and yet here we are. We must always be vigilant and guarded against the overreach of power."

"Soon, U.S. service members will begin deploying to Afghanistan to fight in a war that began before they were born. As we face this watershed moment, it’s past time to change our approach to the longest war in our country’s history"

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"Epstein had a series of Russian visas between 2011 and his death in 2019. Epstein's crimes left a long money trail, and that trail winds back to Russia. ...One filed by ... shows that between 2003 and 2019, Epstein conducted 4,725 wire transactions totaling over $1 billion. And that’s just one bank. Epstein used multiple banks."

"He is delusional."

"Epstein roped many Russian and East European girls and women into his trafficking operation. The New York magazine profile... in 2002 reads, "...at a party at Maxwell's house, her friends say, one is just as apt to see Russian ladies of the night, as one is to see Prince Andrew.""

"Epstein claimed to have given... some insight on Trump to the Russians. Epstein met on many occasions with , Russia's representative to the United Nations in 2006, until Churkin's death in 2017. Epstein wrote in an email, "Churkin was great, ...He understood Trump after our conversation. it is not complex, he must be seen to get something its that simple.""

"' recently reported on an alleged classified U.S. intelligence document claiming that, "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor... was drawn into Moscow's orbit thanks to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which the allegedly used as a route into the British establishment.""

"The president of Trump's Atlantic City Hotel in the late 1980s said he saw Trump and Epstein together so frequently that he believed Epstein was Trump's best friend. ...[He] described the incident where Trump brought Epstein a 19 year old girl to the casino gaming floor."

"Epstein once took a model to , where she says Trump groped her while laughing with Epstein. She remarked that it seemed like a twisted game between the two men."

"Epstein struck up a relationship with , Russia’s former deputy minister of economic development and a graduate of the FSB, Russia's intelligence academy. Epstein introduced him to contacts like Peter Thiel... who would... give $10 million to the super PAC that helped elect now-Vice President J.D. Vance to the Senate in 2022."

"Trump... said in 2002, "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy! He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.""

"wrote... in Rolling Stone magazine in 2021.., "Hoffenberg told me that Epstein had said he'd worked on several projects with Robert Maxwell, including solving Maxwell's 'debt' issues." ...Maxwell ...[had] stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from the pensions of his employees. The story continued, Epstein... had... told Hoffenberg, that via Maxwell and [Douglas] Leese, he was involved in something that Hoffenberg described as national security issues, which he says involved , influence trading, trading information at a level that is very serious and dangerous. The story concluded, "Four separate sources told me on the record that Epstein's dealings in the arms world in the 1980s had led him to work for multiple governments, including the .""

"Alan Dershowitz told the The New York Times in 2019.., "In those days, if you didn't know Trump and you didn't know Epstein, you were a nobody." Dershowitz... served both on Epstein's defense team when he was charged with having sex with minors... in 2006, and on Trump's impeachment defense team in 2020."

"[I]n the 1980s Epstein struck up a friendship with... Donald Trump. ...Michael Wolff has said.., "They shared everything. They shared their airplanes. They shared women... They shared constantly business and financial advice." ...There are many photos of the two men together on the New York and Palm Beach party circuits throughout the 1990s."

"It doesn't make sense that the President of the United States, who... insists on being dominant... is so submissive to... Russia's dictator, Vladimir Putin."

"John McCain used to say that Russia is a gas station, run by gangsters with an army."

"So what is it about Trump and Russia, and could it have any connection with Trump's close friendship with the deceased pedaphile, Jeffrey Epstein?"

"[T]he survivors... and the millions of emails released... through the... have shed... light on the operation of the... global pedaphile ring, and over and over, it touches Russia."

"When recently asked... about the Epstein files, Trump said... "It's just a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax." ..."[H]oax," the word he used for when something is true, but the most telling... is that Trump's mind, [when] asked about Epstein, immediately went to Russia."

"According to Steven Hoffenberg... [Douglas] Leese introduced Epstein to Robert Maxwell. Ghislaine Maxwell, who became Epstein's... sex trafficking accomplice after her father's death, was Robert Maxwell's favorite daughter, and he involved her deeply in his work. ...Robert Maxwell had complex shifting ties to British, Soviet and Israeli intelligence. Initially bankrolled by , he accepted secret payments from the through his Soviet friendly publishing company, and... traversed both sides of the ."

"In 1992... The Sunday Express wrote that a secret document, signed by the head of the ... showed that Maxwell was a political and intelligence asset for the Soviet Union... [and] that Soviet leadership had instructed the KGB to protect Maxwell's reputation and business activities."

"Maxwell's UK foreign office file... described him as.., "a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia.""

"Behind Trump’s fog bank and pretexts, he and his un-elected co-president Musk are simply stealing from the American people to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. It’s gangster government."

"There are few things that enrage the American public more than crooked, dark money political spending. If you tried to get a dark money political spending bill through the Senate, you couldn't do it. If you tried to get it through the House, you couldn't do it. If you put the Senate and House under Republican control, you still couldn't do it, but if you have captured the Supreme Court [...] then a decision that is as unpopular and enraging as this decision comes your way, and they pulled it off in plain daylight."

"If Trump were purposefully doing Russia's bidding, it is hard to see what he would be doing differentlty."

"Despite documented warnings from their own scientists dating from the 1970s, ExxonMobil pursued a campaign of deceit, denial, and delay. They may soon have to face the consequences. History will not look kindly on their choice."

"These rioters, if not subdued, not only will destroy the livelihoods of law-abiding citizens but will also take more innocent lives. Many poor communities that still bear scars from past upheavals will be set back still further. One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers."

"Now that the Department of Justice has confirmed that the Senate FIRST STEP Act offers early release to multiple categories of sex offenders in several provisions of the bill, Congress should fix these problems instead of ramming this bill through. There is no such thing as a "low-risk violent sex offender" who deserves earlier release than under current law"

"Judge Jackson will coddle criminals and terrorists, and she will twist or ignore the law to reach the result that she wants. That's not what we need in a Supreme Court justice, and that's why I will be voting against her confirmation."

"We hear a great deal of talk about idealism, the idealism of America, the idealism of men. There are two conceptions of idealism. If by idealism is meant that a man is so exalted in his purposes that he disregards his own interests from any selfish standpoint and endeavors to benefit other people without trying to benefit himself, that kind of idealism is admirable in an individual. But if by idealism is meant that a man follows visions and dreams, that he does things that are impractical, that will not work out, then that kind of idealism is closely associated with insanity."

"They tell us that our race is the best type of Christian civilization. Very well; I want to preserve that civilization until Christ does come to earth, and I do not want any individual to assume that he can transform himself into a second Christ by talking about idealism. Every once in a while, you know, there is a gentleman who imagines that he is Napoleon, or Caesar, or Hannibal, or Mahomet, or the Saviour. The trouble is, they are idealists; they are not practical men. Suppose we sit down here and say to ourselves, "Some day, somewhere, in some remote century of time, people are going to be so good that they will not kill us, and therefore we will throw away our weapons and give them several thousand years in which to butcher us"; and suppose that in the meantime this race of men to which we belong, and which is all that represents real civilization in the world, is destroyed. There will not be anybody to recognize the millennium when it does come. There will not be anybody with enough idealism to know what it is when he sees it."

"anti-porn crusader turned senator Dianne Feinstein"

"Many police officers killed in the line of duty are killed by assault weapons, including 1 in 5 officers killed in 2014."

"It’s important to understand how we got where we are today. In 1966, the unthinkable happened: a madman climbed the University of Texas clock tower and opened fire, killing more than a dozen people. It was the first mass shooting in the age of television, and it left a real impression on the country. It was the kind of terror we didn’t expect to ever see again. But around 30 years ago, we started to see an uptick in these types of shootings, and over the last decade they’ve become the new norm. In July 2012, a gunman walked into a darkened theater in Aurora and shot 12 people to death, injuring 70 more. One of his weapons was an assault rifle. The sudden and utterly random violence was a terrifying sign of what was to come. In December 2012, a young man entered an elementary school in Newtown and murdered six educators and 20 young children. One of his weapons was an assault rifle. Watching the aftermath of these young babies being gunned down was heartrending. In June 2016, a gunman entered a nightclub in Orlando and sprayed revelers with gunfire. The shooter fired hundreds of rounds, many in close proximity, and killed 49. Many of the victims were shot in the head at close range. One of his weapons was an assault rifle. Last month, a gunman opened fire on concertgoers in Las Vegas, turning an evening of music into a killing field. All told, the shooter used multiple assault rifles fitted with bump-fire stocks to kill 58 people. The concert venue looked like a warzone. Over the weekend in Sutherland Springs, 26 were killed by a gunman with an assault rifle. The dead ranged from 17 months old to 77 years. No one is spared with these weapons of war. When so many rounds are fired so quickly, no one is spared. Another community devastated and dozens of families left to pick up the pieces. These are just a few of the many communities we talk about in hushed tones—San Bernardino, Littleton, Aurora, towns and cities across the country that have been permanently scarred."

"If you want a sense of what separates much of the leadership of the Democratic Party from many of its supporters — of what illustrates their profound disconnect from younger cohorts of liberal and progressive voters — you could do much worse than to read this recent statement from Senator Dianne Feinstein of California. “Some things take longer than others, and you can only do what you can do at a given time,” she said in an interview with Rebecca Traister. “That does not mean you can’t do it at another time,” she continued, “and so one of the things you develop is a certain kind of memory for progress: when you can do something in terms of legislation and have a chance of getting it through, and when the odds are against it, meaning the votes and that kind of thing.” “So,” Feinstein concluded, “I’m very optimistic about the future of our country.” This entire comment was, in Traister’s analysis, a damning example of the sanguine complacency that seems to mark much of the gerontocratic leadership of the Democratic Party. I agree. What’s missing from party leaders, an absence that is endlessly frustrating to younger liberals, is any sense of urgency and crisis — any sense that our system is on the brink."

"As president of the Board of Supervisors, it's my duty to make this announcement. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White."

"Make no mistake, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, women will be harmed and some will die. It happened before Roe became the law of the land and it will happen again, particularly since this decision will harm low-income and at-risk women more than anyone"

"We’re introducing an updated Assault Weapons Ban for one reason: so that after every mass shooting with a military-style assault weapon, the American people will know that a tool to reduce these massacres is sitting in the Senate, ready for debate and a vote. This bill won’t stop every mass shooting, but it will begin removing these weapons of war from our streets. The first Assault Weapons Ban was just starting to show an effect when the NRA stymied its reauthorization in 2004. Yes, it will be a long process to reduce the massive supply of these assault weapons in our country, but we’ve got to start somewhere. To those who say now isn’t the time, they’re right—we should have extended the original ban 13 years ago, before hundreds more Americans were murdered with these weapons of war. To my colleagues in Congress, I say do your job."

"Sen. Feinstein's protection of the filibuster is unjust & unacceptable. The filibuster wasn't made w/ purpose. It's the result of an accident in rulebook revision & bloomed as a cherished tool of segregationists. Now it empowers minority rule. That's not "special," it's unjust."

"I truly believe that there is a center in the political spectrum that is the best place to run something when you have a very diverse community. America is diverse; we are not all one people. We are many different colors, religions, backgrounds, education levels, all of it."

"Dogma and law are two different things, and I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma. The law is totally different. And I think in your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern."

"Dianne Feinstein to children trying to keep a livable planet: "You come in here and say it has to be my way or the highway. I don't respond to that." Feinstein to climate-denying Republicans trying to end reproductive rights:"

"Today for the first time in more than a half century, the US has returned to the moon. Today, for the first time in the history of humanity, a commercial company — an American company — launched and led the voyage up there. And today is a day that shows the power and promise of NASA's commercial partnerships. Congratulations to everyone involved in this great and daring quest at Intuitive Machines, SpaceX and right here at NASA. What a triumph! Odysseus has taken the moon. This feat is a giant leap forward for all of humanity."

"We are showing that planetary defense is a global endeavor, and it is very possible to save our planet."

"I have hunted all my life...but an AR-15 is not for hunting. It’s for killing."

"Being chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee is like jumping off a cliff. The thrill is very short."

"It is the only case on record of a man swimming toward a sinking ship."

"[W]hen the White House refused to speak directly and clearly about this matter, we were weakened as a nation and a tyrant was strengthened... The dodge on Putin broke with the basic American moral tradition. It broke faith with our core values. It broke trust with freedom seekers across the globe... To those who struggle, we have always said, ‘we see you, and we stand with you.’ These simple truths matter. The moral responsibilities of the office of the presidency matter, and when we don't affirm these basic truths, it is a failure to who we are. It is a failure to do what we do, and it is a betrayal, not just to the millions of people who are denied free and fair elections in Russia this week, but it is a failure to people all across the globe who are struggling in darkness against tyrants."