Political Quotes

Right in the middle of that meeting with our security team, I got a phone call from House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who was calling me, saying that he and Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer were all together in an undisclosed bunker they'd been spirited off to at some undisclosed location, that the U.S. Capitol police was overwhelmed, that there was no federal law enforcement presence, and that the leaders of Congress were pleading with me, as the governor of Maryland, for assistance from Maryland's National Guard and state police.

The frustrating part is just imagine if we had not taken all the steps we have taken, how many deaths we would have had.

It's not just the federal government has failed, or the states have failed. There's not enough of these things.

We want to protect the folks that actually have drug addictions and not treat them just as law enforcement cases.