Political Quotes

“I'd like to yield 3 minutes to Diana DeGette, my friend from Denver, who had a number of constituents in the movie theater that evening. Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to thank my dear friend and colleague, Ed Perlmutter, for yielding to me. This is a difficult week for all of us in Colorado. There were two movie theaters in the Denver metro area that were showing this premiere at midnight last Thursday night. So there were people from all over the community in that theater there with their families and their friends, almost the entire employees of a restaurant in Colorado. They went to have a fun evening on a summer night. And tragedy, of course, struck that night unexpectedly to everybody. I've been overwhelmed, as we all have in the delegation, by the support of the community for all of the victims of the shooting and their families. {time} 0930 The way the communities have come together--Aurora and Denver and Inglewood and all of the communities--has been a blessed thing to see for all of us. No one can make sense of a tragedy like this, and the stories of heroism are still coming out every day. The stories of miracles--babies born just a day or two after in the same hospital where the father lies in a coma. Yet while we hear all of these stories of heroism and while we hear all of the stories of first responders rushing to the scene and helping within 90 seconds, in our heart we say: How can this happen and what can we do?…”