Without Operation Fly Formula, we would have taken three weeks to get — Joe Biden

"While this bill doesn’t do everything I want, it does include actions I’ve long called for that are going to save lives. It funds crisis intervention, including red-flag laws. It keeps guns out of the hands of people who are a danger to themselves and to others. And it finally closes what is known as the “boyfriend loophole.” So if you assault your boyfriend or girlfriend, you can’t buy a gun or own a gun. It requires young people ages 18 to 21 to undergo enhanced background checks. It includes the first-ever federal law that makes gun trafficking and straw purchases distinct federal crimes for the first time. It clarifies who needs to register as a federally licensed gun dealer, and run background checks before selling a single weapon. You know, this is — also provides historic funding to address the youth mental health crisis in this country, especially — especially the trauma experienced by the survivors of this gun violence."

"Israel will not get everything it asks for... I firmly believe that the actions that Israels government has taken over the past several years — the steady and systematic expansion of settlements, the legalization of outposts, land seizures — theyre moving us, and, more importantly, theyre moving Israel in the wrong direction"

"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."

"It includes ensuring that we create clean energy opportunities in frontline and fence-line communities that have been smothered . . . by the legacy of pollution, and fight environmental injustice that’s been going on for so long."

"I learned later that the surgeon who put Dole back together after he was so badly injured in World War II was an Armenian whose family had deep memories of the genocidal campaign the Turks had waged against them."

"[T]heres only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11."