Political Quotes

“In the course of these 1-minutes, of which there have been over 50, thank you, Mr. Cicilline, for bringing us together once again on the steps of the Capitol a couple of nights ago and now here in the Chamber. When we are in school and they ask us to write about something, they say: Answer these questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Who? Little children in Newtown, young people in Orlando, churchgoers in South Carolina, moviegoers in Colorado, again and again. The list goes on and on as to the vulnerability. What? What? What? Slaughter of people. Mr. Thompson has repeated the numbers over and over again. But 91 people killed every night on the streets of our country, and we had 91 people in orange shirts on the steps of the Capitol last week to mention that. Over 1,000 mass murders since Newtown, mass murders being described as over four people being killed in any one instance. What? What? What? Violence on the streets of our city, and even in our churches and other. Who? What? When? Every day. Every single day with greater frequency and intensity. Most recently, in Dallas. So sad. An assassination of five police officers. Many of us spoke to that in the course of the last few days. Where? All over the country. I just mentioned Dallas, and I mentioned some other venues earlier. All over the country, every single day. But the main question is, Why? Why is this happening?…”