Political Quotes

“I'd like to begin by thanking my friend and colleague from Connecticut, Congressman Murphy, not just for introducing this legislation, but for his strength of spirit as he has comforted some people who have lived through something that none of us would ever want to live through. As Congressman Murphy noted, Noah Pozner, a 6-year-old boy, was buried today, as was Jack Pinto, another 6-year-old boy. I looked at the photographs of the parents at those funerals and tried to imagine the bottomless grief, the anger, the questions they must have. Of course, that's impossible. At the very front of those questions is the question of, ``Why?'' That is something that we'll all struggle with individually, reverting probably only imperfectly onto the tenets of our faith as we consider how this supposedly benevolent God could allow this sort of slaughter of innocents to happen. We won't answer that question. Last night, with the President and my family, by which I mean my colleagues from Connecticut, as we listened to the President and listened to the sighs and the gasps of the families in the community of Newtown, it's clear there's no answer to that question of ``Why?'' A line of poetry kept running through my head. Thomas Hardy, in one of his poems, asked: How arrives it joy lies slain, And why unblooms the best hope ever sown? We won't answer that question, but that question and its unanswerability will transform itself into a burden that we all will and must bear.…”