Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank the Senator. I thank all the staff and, again, all colleagues--40 of them--for joining us on the floor on Wednesday night into the early hours. Let's be clear about what happened. Let's be clear about the fact that this body was going to ignore what happened last weekend in Orlando--the largest mass shooting in the history of this country. We were going to pretend that it didn't happen. If not for the actions of Senator Booker, Senator Blumenthal, 30-some odd others, and me, we would be moving on to business that had nothing to do with keeping this Nation safer. I don't know how these votes are going to turn out tonight. I know people are skeptical, but we are at least going to get to see where people stand on some pretty simple concepts--the concept that if you are suspected of terrorism, you should not be able to walk out of a gun store in this country with a dangerous assault weapon. A new poll today tells us that 87 percent of Americans support that. Guess what. A greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats support that. Do you know why that number is so high? Because this country is under attack. This country is under attack, and the new weapon of choice of terrorists is not a plane or an explosive device, it is an assault weapon. After September 11, we made a decision. We made a decision to stop terrorists from getting onto planes because they were using them to kill Americans.…”