"I am more hopeful, thank you for having me. But we need to be very clear eyed about the history, here I’ve been working on this history for the entire time, 12 years that I’ve been in the United States Senate."
"I couldn’t come to work in a morning if I weren’t hopeful."
"I think we have to translate that kind of emotion into action. Honor with action and it is a club that no one wants to join."
"I hope that we can come together as a Congress, but I would simply say to all my colleagues in the United States Senate if this tragedy doesn't crystallize, your sense of obligation, then you are in e..."
"Ari, as I watch the scenes, I relive what happened at Sandy Hook, just about 10 years ago, and I've kept as friends, these families who lost children and I know they still have a hole in their hearts,..."
"It is now today easier to get a gun than drive a car in Texas."
"We focus on these massacres, but the day-by-day shootings in Hartford and in New Haven and all around the country and cities and rural and suburban community, more than half the gun deaths are suicide..."
"What I'd say to them very emphatically, Ari, is that there are common-sense actions we can take to separate dangerous killers from firearms."
"I am particularly concerned--by the mental health of our veterans."
"I think this Nation is going through a mental health crisis."
"When we go into a war, these kinds of health care coverage are part of the cost of that war."