Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague for the question, and I want to reiterate the nature of our partnership that he underscored. He and I were there together in Newtown in that firehouse hours after that shooting, and we have spent probably hundreds of hours with the families. Since then, we have probably spent hundreds of hours together on this floor arguing as a team for changes in our laws. I am so grateful to my friend Senator Blumenthal for being part of this effort today. He is right in stating that long before I was, shall we say, a convert on this issue myself in the days and weeks following Sandy Hook, it was Senator Blumenthal as our attorney general and then as our Senator who has been fighting this fight for years. Connecticut has some of the strongest laws keeping guns out of the hands of criminals in the Nation, and it is not a coincidence that our gun homicide rate is one of the lowest. I will just say this to answer the Senator's question. I know my colleague from New Jersey is rising as well. The United States is unique. We have written into our Constitution language about the intersection of private individuals and firearms. So we have to take seriously the words that are in that Second Amendment.…”