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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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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There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far.
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In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.
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Let me tell you the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat and every president since, Democrat and Republican, has stood closely with Israel.
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The credibility of the president is on the line. And I believe that he should move forward as quickly as possible to call for a full investigation. We should be able to point to those people fully responsible for putting that misleading language in the State of the Union address. They should be held accountable, and they should be dismissed.
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. . . The White House promised new details in his speech. The president delivered generalities,
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I'm hoping that (the president and Congress are) sensitive to what consumers are needing,
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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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We do not want to end the Patriot Act. We want to mend the Patriot Act.
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At the very least, Mr. Gonzales helped to create a permissive environment that made it more likely that abuses would take place.
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This opportunity is slipping through our hands like grains of sand.
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There's more candor this time around, which helps, but I'm still looking at some of the basic questions,
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We are the largest magnet for this level of talent in the world.
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I worry... he will tip the balance of the scales of justice. He will tip the balance against protecting our basic privacy and personal freedoms. He will tip the balance in favor of presidential power even when it violates the law.