Political Quotes

“I want to recognize my friend and colleague Senator Murphy for his moral leadership on this issue and for continuously demanding that all of us do better and that all of us do more to address what is an epidemic of gun violence. We are here tonight and through the night to call on Leader McConnell to do a very simple thing, which is to bring background check legislation and other gun safety legislation to the Senate floor for a vote. Forty thousand Americans had their lives cut short by guns last year. Forty thousand Americans died. It is unthinkable that we would allow mass violence to occur in our country with this type of frequency. What is shocking is that not only do we accept this as part of the American way of life--as though it were enshrined in the Constitution that we must have this amount of violence in order to have our Second Amendment rights--but that we allowed the question of what to do to keep our people safe to turn into a partisan question. The Democrats are out here on the floor saying: Why don't we figure out what we can do to make people safer? And on the other side of the Chamber, there is no one. This isn't the first time this has happened or the second time or the third time or the fifth time. When we come down to the floor to demand action on gun safety, we have no dance partner. It shouldn't be this way, especially given where the public is. I don't just mean Democrats or Independents.…”