Joe Courtney actually said...

"Which is that, you know, you can have all the platitudes in the world about people's right to equality and votes and collective bargaining. But if you don't have a remedy, it really doesn't exist."

"You are really taking an oath to a system that is about protecting people's dignity and rights as American citizens."

"it has been 9 months since Sandy Hook. There are too many mentally ill people getting too easy access to weapons, and it is time for this Congress to pass a background check bill, which would help, fr..."

"And hopefully the bipartisan budget negotiations that are going to start today are going to get us to a point where we can, again, avoid all the negative consequences that you have described here toda..."