Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, our Nation is grieving. We are tired. We are tired of the violence that too often unsettles our communities. What a week we had last week. We were horrified by the deaths of Lorne Ahrens, Michael Smith, Michael Krol, Patrick Zamarripa, and Brent Thompson--five officers murdered by a sniper in Dallas while they were on duty. We saw very troubling videos of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling being shot. Today we also mark the 1-month anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, a hateful act on the LGBT community that took the lives of 49 people. This shooting shook the country, as have the many mass shootings that have preceded it. As we still process these deaths, daily violence continues in communities around the country. Over the weekend, the total number of shootings in Chicago, where I come from, this year exceeded 2,100. Over 300 people in Chicago have now died from gun violence in 2016. I have received hundreds and hundreds of letters from constituents of all ages concerned about the effect of gun violence in our communities and in their communities. Yesterday I received a letter from a young constituent, an 8-year-old named Kaline. She wrote: ``I read the Sun-Times every day like my dad. I read and still think about the story of Tyshawn Lee. It's just hitting my mind all the time because it's not fair. It makes me cry.'' Tyshawn Lee was a 9-year-old boy in Chicago deliberately assassinated, shot multiple times in the head.…”