Here's the problem - under both Obama and Trump, American military forces and assistance have provided just enough support to anti-Assad forces to keep the resistance going, but never enough help to actually dislodge Assad from power.

American foreign policy needs to be driven by what will get results and what is legal, not by what satisfies our primal instincts of revenge.

The most popular health care plan in the country is Medicare. It delivers the best care at the lowest cost - it's better than any other part of our health care system. But most people can only get it when they're over 65. I don't think you should have to wait that long.

The Choose Medicare Act will let people of all ages buy into Medicare as their health care plan, and it would let any business also buy into Medicare and offer it to its employees.

Connecticut farmers keep our economy running.

People are working hard, they're doing everything we ask of them, and they are still struggling. It's not enough to just have a job. We need to make sure that these are good-paying jobs that pay the rent and put food on the table. Jobs that have benefits like health care and that allow people to save for retirement.

I've never met a Democrat in Congress who wants open borders or who doesn't believe in enforcing immigration laws.

I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Frankly, I'd be shocked if they did.

When I got to the Senate, I made overhauling our nation's mental health laws one of my top priorities.

The Mental Health Reform Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2016. It was one of my proudest moments in Congress.

Washington can be a frustrating place.

Helping people get the skills they need to set them up for a rewarding career helps keep people in Connecticut, and it ensures that we have a workforce that's ready to fill the thousands of manufacturing jobs of the future.

The list of erratic actions from Mohammed bin Salman is long: the jailing of royal family members, the detention of the Lebanese prime minister, a nonsensical feud with Qatar, the growing internal repression of political speech, and the disastrous war in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia is an important country to the United States.

Our nation, in a short quarter-millennium, catapulted itself to global preeminence by solving the world's greatest problems and exporting those solutions to the rest of the world.

Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe.

The gun lobby is certainly politically powerful, but it loses as many races as it wins.

America's reputation is based on its ability to deliver the world big, Earth-changing solutions.

With every new class of representatives that comes to Congress, there is a greater recognition of the perils of private financing of campaigns. I believe that by pulling back the curtain on the daily pressures faced by members of Congress, we can show the public how critical this reform is to the salvation of our democracy.

Most elected officials don't want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering portrait of public life.

The NRA has become financially dependent on more and more guns being sold - especially the expensive ones. In turn, the NRA has stated that its top legislative priority is to protect gun makers by advocating for legislation that benefits them.

Washington is agonizingly slow at learning from its mistakes. Especially in the Middle East.

I'm generally pretty responsible and diligent, but people make mistakes.

I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power.

Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn't.

I can't throw a nickel from the Capitol without hitting a think tank that's been financed by one of the Gulf States.

If you were a Democrat getting ready to run for office in the 2000s, as I was, you were told to stay clear of guns... I really regret that. I regret having listened to that advice.

I play in the congressional baseball game.

I used to play lots of sports. I used to be a good tennis player. I used to be a decent golfer.

I grew up in a pretty economically safe, physically safe household, and, you know, now my life is defined by other people's trauma and by other people's emotional experience with it, and I think I'm richer for that, frankly.

Background checks applied universally and nationally would take millions of illegal guns off the streets of our cities.

I would respectfully disagree that the right to own a military-style weapon is a God-given right. I didn't see that anywhere in the Bible that I read.

People should remember that in the 2000s, the gun lobby got a lot passed: they got riders added to appropriations bills. They got immunity for the gun industry. They successfully managed the expiration of the assault weapons ban.

You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead to violence anywhere else but America.

The tweets that I send out are not written by somebody else. They're not vetted through my communications staff.

More Democrats should be speaking without vetting their statements through their staff because it will feel realer.

I do not understand how people can look at the rapid spread of extremism all across the globe and not understand that it is - that it isn't coincidental to the concurrent rapid spread of a very conservative strain of Islam that is paid for out of Saudi Arabia.

In Syria, a progressive foreign policy would have shown military restraint while pumping up our ability to gain political leverage over Syria's benefactors and providing humanitarian funding to make sure that anybody that wanted to leave Syria could.

I think when you have so many people working for American-based think tanks and American-based defense companies, there is always going to be a bent towards proposing American-led solutions for foreign problems. People get paid big money in Washington to come up with ways that America can fix problems overseas, and they are not always right.

Ultimately, stability in Syria will come from decisions made on the ground by the Syrian people and by their immediate neighbors.

It's a wonderful story for the gun lobby to tell that if you just load up schools with weapons, you'll be safer. All of the evidence suggests that homes and communities that have more weapons have more gun crimes, not less.

I think Donald Trump believes in putting a wall around America and hoping everything turns out OK.

American values don't begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.

I think progressives understand that we are Americans at the same time as we are global citizens. We are interested first and foremost in creating peace and prosperity here at home, but we aren't blind to the fact that injustice anywhere in the world is meaningful, important, and worth thinking about.

I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.

We have a cleaner system of government in this state where people run based on their ideas, not based on their ability to raise money.

The skill of telemarketing does not necessarily translate into governing.

You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

I don't require a background check to contribute to my campaign. And so there are probably lots of people with unsavory backgrounds and pasts who have given to both Democrats and Republicans.

America's strength in the past has been our ability to bring family members to join other family members in the United States and to look at skills but not have it be the only determination of how you get here.