Political Quotes

“my many thanks to my friend from Delaware, I thank him so much for putting this resolution on this morning. To my San Diego colleagues, I thank them for coming together with all of us and giving some real value to this resolution. Mr. Speaker, I thought I would mention those students and others at Santee High who were in fact wounded. Barry Gibson, Heather Cruz, Scott Marshall, Travis Tate-Gallegos, Melissa McNulty, Trevor Edwards, Raymond Serrato, James Jackson, Trison Salladay, Matthew Heier, Karla Leyva, and campus supervisor Peter Ruiz and student teacher Timothy Estes have been in the thoughts and prayers of, of course, all of the Santee residents and all Americans who have heard about this tragedy. They will continue to be in our thoughts and prayers. Mr. Speaker, there will be political discussions that arise out of this tragedy. That is going to happen. We are a political body. We respond to occurrences like this. I would just ask all my colleagues over the next 3 or 4 weeks to observe a standard, maybe an arbitrary standard that I have set for myself, but I would hope we would all observe it and, that is, this is a tragedy, this is a time for grieving, a time for mourning, a time for healing in Santee, California; and I would ask everyone to not attach a political agenda to this occurrence until a month has gone by. Maybe that is an arbitrary time, but I think that that respects the families and the students in Santee, California. Lastly, Mr.…”