Joe Courtney actually said...

"Thank you for your amazing service, for you belief in our system. Not just as a soldier, but also a citizen and as a worker."

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

"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."

"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..."