Political Quotes

“it is hard to believe that I am on this floor again after losing 10 more people, this time in Boulder, CO, to another horrible mass shooting in our State. I am sure the Presiding Officer doesn't remember that last week, after the events in Atlanta, I went over to his desk, and I said that we were so sorry in Colorado for what had happened in Atlanta, and then, just 3 or 4 days later, it happened again in Colorado. I have spent the last day learning about the victims of this terrible crime, and I want America to know what extraordinary human beings we have lost in my State. Here they are. Denny Stong, age 20. Denny was a graduate of Fairview High School, an introverted, smart kid who loved history and model airplanes. He had been covering shifts at the King Soopers and took enormous pride in his role as an essential worker during this pandemic. He once posted on Facebook, ``I can't stay home. I am a Grocery Store Worker.'' Neven Stanisic, age 23. Neven's dad said he was, ``a really good boy, a good kid . . . a hard-working boy.'' His parents are refugees from Bosnia, who left in the 1990s to escape the war. The reverend at their local church said: ``His family fled the war . . . and everything they had was either left behind or destroyed. ``They left everything to save their lives, and came here to have a new start,'' said the pastor. They came to America to have a new start, only to have their son's life ended by this senseless act of violence.…”