Political Quotes

“my colleagues, the week is finally here when we come to the floor to have votes on a piece of legislation we have been waiting on for decades. This Chamber is finally talking about what we can do to stop the plague of gun violence which has rippled through every single corner of this country. As I watched these mass shootings play out over the course of the last 10 years--whether it be in Colorado or Arizona or Virginia--we think to ourselves that this is just something we are watching. This is just something that has happened somewhere else to someone else. We never think it could happen to us. I will never forget that day I was in Bridgeport, CT, and it was right before Christmas. We were getting ready to take a train so I could bring my two little boys, along with my wife, to look at the pageantry of New York City. That was the day I got the call that there had been a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I thought it must have been a mistake. I thought, well, to the extent there is something going on at Sandy Hook Elementary School--this quiet hamlet in western Connecticut--it must be some disgruntled employee who walked in and had a grudge. What I learned over the next few minutes during the half-hour drive to Newtown made my blood freeze. I learned this was a mass shooting involving dozens of adults and kids. I realized it was now happening in my neighborhood, in my State, in my town.…”