Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

"If the Park Police don't keep control of guns then, of course, in no small measure this city may be the first to feel the effects of it."

"I am saying it sounds to me as though no one ever invented one."

"Of course the Park Police has been among the most unappreciated and least well staffed police forces, Federal police forces."

"I think everybody ought to put all the cards on the table, and that's the big elephant in this hearing room today."