Political Quotes

“Senator Murphy's very eloquent reference to a family we met just a day or so after the loss of their child brings back a memory that always evokes an almost indescribable emotion from me. My heart goes to my throat whenever I think of that couple saying to me: We are ready now, ready to help, ready to take action. And that has been the story of the Newtown and Sandy Hook families who lived through that loss. They came here and told their stories to our colleagues, nearly achieved--or helped us achieve--a victory. We came within four or five votes of that outcome. And from the Gallery of the Chamber, when we failed came the cry ``shame,'' and it was indeed shameful that the Senate failed to move forward. My colleague from New Jersey, Senator Booker, has described the real- world impact in such graphic and powerful terms that I hesitate to follow him, but I want to make two points and ask my colleague from Connecticut whether he agrees with them. The first is that those families from Connecticut in a sense represented the community as a whole--the Newtown community, the Connecticut community--through organizations like Sandy Hook Promise and the Newtown Action Alliance and others around the country--Everytown, Americans for Responsible Solutions. They are doing what proponents of sensible, commonsense measures have done for much longer, which is to organize and to galvanize and educate and raise awareness. And that, in the end, will be the way we win.…”