Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, as we celebrate National Police Week across the country, I rise on the House floor this afternoon to honor the memory of the five fallen police officers who we lost last year in eastern Kentucky. Three police officers in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, paid the ultimate sacrifice when they were tragically shot in the line of duty on June 30, 2022: Ralph Harlow Frasure, a 39-year law enforcement veteran who served as captain of the Prestonsburg City Police Department for nearly four decades and a beloved school resource officer at Prestonsburg High School. William Edward Petrey, a 31-year law enforcement veteran who served the Kentucky State Police, the Prestonsburg Police Department, and, finally, the Floyd County Sheriff's Office. Jacob Russell Chaffins, a young 28-year-old law enforcement officer who courageously served the Kentucky Army National Guard, the Prestonsburg Police Department, and the Prestonsburg Fire Department and became a U.S. marshal. Their heroic deaths were the greatest display of love described in John 15:13: ``Greater love has no man than this: to lay down his life for his friends.'' It was with great courage of conviction that those three officers lived to protect the people of the United States, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and especially those in Floyd County.…”