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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
school race government
In my lifetime, it's the Supreme Court, not Congress, that integrated our public schools, that allowed people of different races to marry, and established the principle that our government should respect the value of privacy of American families. These decisions are the legacy of justices who chose to expand American freedom.
years people birth-control
Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.
government names doctors
We see it in attempts on Capitol Hill to impose gag rules on rules on doctors on what they can say to their patients about family planning. And we certainly see it now with an effort by the government to tap our phones; invade our medical records, credit information, library records and the most sensitive personal information in the name of national security.