Political Quotes

“People who are watching may wonder: What are these folks talking about? They are talking about a rule. What is this about? If you just tuned in, I will tell you what it is about. One hundred thousand Americans have died from guns in the last 3\1/2\ years, and this body--this House of Representatives, this U.S. House of Representatives, the people's House--has done nothing, nothing at all, not one little thing. The time has long passed for marking the deaths of Americans by guns when we could help to prevent them. The time has passed for moments of silence. We need to take action, and the action needs to be now because, while we wait, Americans die. What makes the news are the mass shootings. Sadly, they are becoming more frequent, and they are becoming more horrific. Every single day, Americans are dying in small towns, in big cities. They are dying in bedrooms, dying in domestic violence arguments, dying on the streets of Hartford and Chicago. It often doesn't even make the news, but, believe me, those families know their loved ones are gone. Their friends know-- their friends at church, those in the neighborhood. It is in the ripple of those deaths that we could do something that has us here--that has us here all day, that had us here all night 2 weeks ago. We will keep raising our voices because the American people depend on us to not just talk but to take action, and that is within our power.…”