Dick Durbin
Dick Durbin
Richard Joseph "Dick" Durbinis the senior United States Senator from Illinois, in office since 1997. He has been the Assistant Minority Leader, the second highest position in the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate, since 2015...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 November 1944
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. . . The White House promised new details in his speech. The president delivered generalities,
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I think it would be a clean break for this President.I think we need a strong president with credible leadership,
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M&M categories -- the multimillionaires and the mere mortals.
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If he is suggesting an open-ended, long-term commitment, I'm afraid that's not good enough,
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How can you have the Federal Bureau of Investigation say that he is under active investigation as to whether or not he leaked sensitive data to the Iranians, that could have endangered American soldiers, and this man is being treated like some visiting dignitary?
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It is an element of fairness, an element of opportunity. It basically says in America, we won't let you buy an election. If you're going to come in and try to do that, then you're at least going to give the other candidate a chance to compete.
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Apparently the White House believes she doesn't have any burden to prove she deserves a lifetime appointment.
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It's not a federal mandate, ... It's an opportunity for your community, on a grass roots basis, to come together and decide how you can tell the story of Lincoln.
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I asked the attorney general to please ask our special counsel in this case to take a look at the precedent of the Paris Hilton case and see if he can perhaps protect our records as much as we want to protect that poor young lady's telephone records,
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it would have put millions of American consumers and families at risk of losing coverage for necessary health care.
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I don't see any retreat when it comes to our basic values, ... We feel that what we stand for is still very important to the future of this country. How we present it and how we describe it, maybe we need to look at more carefully. But I didn't hear anybody sounding retreat as I called around to our caucus. We want to make certain that we pick and choose our battles selectively and that we are unified when we do have to take a stand.
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I hope it does bring the Senate together, ... before a second was recognized and to go into a quorum call that could have lasted 'til Thursday.
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I wanted to make certain that no conflicts of interest would have prevented Mr. Flanigan from performing his duties,
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If this is just a process, a legal contest and you'll play for any team that asks you to play, it raises a question about where would you draw the line, if you would ever draw the line.