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
ask mainstream obvious sure
We need to be sure this institution is in the mainstream of American thinking. What we need to do is ask the obvious questions.
asks contest draw legal question raises team
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.
asked basic compass declined judge life moral questions roberts whenever
Whenever we asked Judge Roberts basic questions about his moral compass and his life experience, he declined to answer.
ask best billion committee cover efforts given hard intelligence lost members questions refuses senate seriously spending
We have lost over 2,000 of our best and bravest. Over 15,000 have been seriously wounded, ... We are spending more than $6 billion a month, with no end in sight. And this Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee refuses to even ask the hard questions about the misinformation and disinformation given to the American people, and the efforts made by the members of this administration to cover it up.
asked attorney case counsel general hilton paris perhaps please poor precedent protect records special telephone
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,
business businesses families family frankly income money needs record unfair
Why is it we're transferring all this family and business income to businesses making record profits? ... I think frankly this is unfair to families and businesses. This money needs to come back to families and the consumer.
victory
This was a victory for the American people,
hands opportunity
This opportunity is slipping through our hands like grains of sand.
blind call loyalty policies
the president's call for blind loyalty to his policies in Iraq.
bottom gets gore ninth strikes
Two strikes and two outs in the bottom of the ninth and Gore gets a hit,
mend patriot
We do not want to end the Patriot Act. We want to mend the Patriot Act.
bring clear companies fact forward hopeful oil prices signal
I am hopeful that the fact that this investigation is going forward will be a clear signal to the oil companies to bring down their prices immediately so that we can have some relief.
competent discover hope human hurricane katrina led question suffering truth wrong
may be a very competent individual. But how in the world can we get to the truth of the question as to what went wrong with Hurricane Katrina -- how can we really hope to discover the incompetence that led to all this human suffering and devastation -- if the administration is going to investigate itself?
rights judging would-be
Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms.