Political Quotes

“I thank my friend Doug for describing in detail one of these injuries. I'd like to introduce, Mr. Speaker, if I could, for the Record some brief biographical information of each of the victims who was killed: John Blunk, Alexander Jonathan ``AJ'' Boik, Jesse Childress, Gordon Cowden, Jessica Ghawi, John Larimer, Micayla Medek, Veronica Moser, Alex Sullivan, Alex Teves, and Rebecca Wingo, because I want our Record in this Congress to have their names and some information about them. And I appreciate you talking about somebody specifically. These are hard moments for all of us. These are good people, and some very bad things happened to some very good people. But I want to talk about some of the positive aspects that came out of this dreadful night. Thirteen years ago--Diana DeGette mentioned Columbine--on the southwest side of my district I have Columbine, on the northeast side of my district I have this theater. Colorado is a good place. I mean, all of us love where we come from. We've had some violent incidents that have taken our innocence, as Mr. Polis has said. We heal from these things, but you're never quite the same. You're never quite the same. But one of the positive aspects of that terrible incident 13 years ago at Columbine High School was that our law enforcement, our first responders, our police, our firefighters, our medical teams learned some real lessons.…”