Political Quotes

“It stands to reason that in the wake of this latest attack, we should wake up to the new tactics of our enemy. This is the new tactic of our enemy--to go buy these weapons and to use them against civilians. The genius of what we are proposing is that it keeps weapons out of the hands of would-be terrorists without affecting the Second Amendment rights of anyone else. We are talking about such a small number of sales. Over the course of the year, we are talking about 200 some-odd sales. Think about that, 200-some odd sales that would be affected, that would force someone to be denied a purchase of a weapon because they were on the terrorist watch list. It stands to reason that we should accept the new tactics of these groups and amend our laws. Here is the Senator from New Jersey. We have had such a long run of colleagues coming to the floor that we haven't gotten to hear from the Senators from New Jersey and Connecticut. I yield to the Senator from New Jersey for a question without yielding control of the floor.”