Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator for that question in particular. I think back to where I was--and I think we all can remember with specificity where we were when we first heard about Sandy Hook, when we first heard that there were 20 dead children lying on the floor of their first-grade classrooms. I was with my little kids. I was with my then-1-year-old and 4-year-old on a train platform in Bridgeport, CT, getting ready to go down to New York to see the Christmas tree displays. They were so excited about that to go down. I remember having to tell them I had to go to work, and I left them and my wife on that train platform as we told them the trip was off. I am here today, as I think all of us are, because this is personal to us. My oldest, who was 4 years old then, is this week in his final week of first grade--first grade--the same year as those kids who were killed in Sandy Hook. And so, I think in deeply personal terms about what Sandy Hook means to the kids who survived in addition to the families who lost loved ones. There is no recovery for that community. It is still a community in crisis. There are waves and ripples of trauma that never end.…”