Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Colorado, Mr. Buck, for yielding to me. I am grateful for his leadership as a conservative. It has been my honor to serve with him this past year. I appreciate him sharing some time with me tonight as I share several important stories. Mr. Speaker, these are stories of real people, not just some people who are distant to us. These are people that we know, people just like this. Mr. Speaker, one early January morning in 2015, a young man named Grant Ronnebeck began the graveyard shift at a QuikTrip convenience store in my district. After his parents divorce, Grant took the initiative to find a job working at this convenience store in Mesa, Arizona, to help his family pay the bills. He was only 21 years old. He had his entire life ahead of him. Just before 4 a.m., an angry customer walked in, demanded a pack of cigarettes, and dumped a handful of change on the store counter. Grant started to count the money, but he saw the customer pull a gun out and point it directly at his head. Grant tried to immediately hand over the cigarettes in a desperate attempt to save his life, but it was too late. The customer shot Grant in the face in cold blood, took the cigarettes, and casually walked out of the store. Grant's father describes him as being his buddy from the minute he was born and a person that brightened everybody. He did not leave the store alive that night. The customer's name was Apolinar Altamirano.…”