Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the 14 kids dead in elementary school in Texas right now -- what are we doing? What are we doing? Just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store, to gun down African American patrons, we have another Sandy Hook on our hands. What are we doing? There have been more mass shootings than days in the year. Our kids are living in fear. Every single time they set foot in a classroom, they think they are going to be next. What are we doing? Why do you spend all of this time running for the United States senate? Why do you go through all the hassle? The hassle of getting this job, of putting yourself in a position of authority, if you are answer is that, as the slaughter increases, and as kids run for their lives, we do nothing? What are we doing? Why are you here if not to solve a problem as existential as this? This is not inevitable. These kids were not unlucky! This only happens in this country and nowhere else. Nowhere else to little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day. Nowhere else to parents have to talk to their kids, as I have had to do, about why they got locked into a bathroom and told to be quiet just in case a bad man answered entered the building. Nowhere else does that happen except here in the United States of America. And it is a choice. It is our choice to let it continue.”