Political Quotes

“I join with many of my colleagues to make a pretty simple request, and that is, the issue of gun violence in this country requires us to take action. The Senate needs to do what it has historically been in place to do. The Presiding Officer is in his first term, and I am in my third term. The U.S. Senate is the place in which we debate and vote on issues, the greatest deliberative body in the world--at least that is what I thought I was running for. It is time for Leader McConnell to bring up gun safety legislation-- well past time to bring up gun safety legislation--and for us to act and do something about gun violence in this country. Yes, we hope the President will lead, will provide that leadership that we hear about after every one of these mass shootings--that the President is engaged. We need his leadership to bring us together on sensible gun safety legislation, but if not, we still have the responsibility here in this body to act. We call upon Leader McConnell to bring forward sensible gun safety legislation. The United States is an outlier on gun violence. When you compare the amount of gun violence in the United States to that in the other developed countries of the world, in every category, multiply it times 10, 20, or 30--more likely for gun violence episodes here in the United States than other developed countries of the world. We have far more private ownership of guns in this country than other industrial nations of the world.…”