A universal background check will prevent some criminals and some of the mentally ill from obtaining a firearm.

Gabby and I believe that there are four basic things that we need to do to make this country safer.

I have spoken to a lot of members of the NRA. I have a lot of friends who are members of the NRA; 75 percent of NRA members believe you should have a background check before buying a gun.

This is a very political issue. As you know, you know, money and politics kind of drive the discussion on a lot of these issues.

Gabby is doing great. You know, she's -- she has a little cold right now.

We believe, Gabby and I believe, that there are four basic things that we need to do to make this country safer.

I thank the gentlelady for your guidance and your leadership the last couple of years. It was a joy serving with you in Foreign Affairs. I rise today in support of House Resolution 834 and urge the EU and member states to designate…

And if it is about resources that is baloney, and you know it and I know it.

the American people should wonder what happened that night and why it took so long.

there is something wrong here.

I do rise today in support of the Government Employee Accountability Act, H.R. 6016, and I thank the gentleman from Texas and the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Clay). As a result of this, I think when we had that hearing last spring, both…

the Secretary of State should be here today. She can't be here. I understand she is injured, and I respect that.

If we do not lead from the position of strength there will not be peace in the world.

Why do we have to have nine vaccinations, six vaccinations every 2 months? Why can't we do it over 2 or 3 years and space it and wait for the scientific evidence or whatever?

The Palestinian Authority, they are going to ask the General Assembly today to have a non-member observer state status, okay.

I'm for vaccinations. They prevent disease. I'm totally for it.

I think it is really important that we understand, you can talk the talk but you better be able to walk the walk.

I am greatly worried about that because oftentimes things happen when you are not looking, and this would give some legitimacy again to some very bad players in the world.

I must have had 50 different parents write me or come to me and say, I had a healthy child, yet then they have 10, 9, 6 vaccinations at one time, and that child changed overnight and was knocking their head on the wall, and it was a…

the more we become aware about it, the more we understand how to handle it, the more we can adapt

There's too much verbal evidence coming from parents where they break down, I had a normal child, I gave him a vaccination, and then they--they became--they came down with autism.

How do we get to them? How do we give them the opportunity to find out what they need to know also?

We turned around and walked away from Afghanistan when we shouldn't have and al-Qaeda rose up in that place.

This thing smells from every single end. Listen, it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck; it is a duck.

The question really isn't about the patriotism and the heroics of the people that lost their lives that day. It's really, what can we do to prevent that from ever happening again?