Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator. I think the question is simply: Why are you here--you asked for this job--if you didn't want to confront the big questions and the big problems? Nobody denies that this is an epidemic of criminal proportions. Nobody denies that this is happening only in the United States and nowhere else in the industrialized world. Nobody denies that crippling, never-ending grief that comes with a loved one being lost. Yet we do nothing. We just persist this week as if it is business as usual. Why did you sign up for this job if you are not prepared to use it to try to solve big problems? I appreciate the hope of my friend from Pennsylvania that we can find common ground. We have had a long time to find common ground. We have had 4 years since those kids were slaughtered in Sandy Hook to find common ground, but we haven't, which is why we are here today--to demand that we are not going to go along with business as usual any longer until we come together on at least two of the proposals that 90 percent of the American public supports. I yield to the Senator from Washington for a question without losing my right to the floor.”