Tim Walz

It's not surprising that the President has chosen to broadly target an entire community. This is what he does to change the subject.

No one has ever been more dangerous to this country than Donald Trump, and he is a fascist to his core.

If Minnesota lets this moment slide and we determine it’s OK for little ones to not be safe in a school or church environment, then shame on us.

The thing that makes America unique in terms of shootings is we just have more guns and the wrong types of guns are on the streets.

We, as Democrats, we want people to pay their fair share, but why are we against people being successful like that? We can’t be.

We’re just simply talking about all businesses. What we don’t want is monopolies. We don’t want corruption.

Can you imagine threatening individual businesses, saying, ‘you’re going to do this, or I’m going to do this,’ as a leader? If you’re in the business community, shame on you for supporting this guy still.

Look, the business community is finding [out] right now how bad a businessman Donald Trump is, crapping on the economy, you know, tariffs back and forth, threatening businesses.

I'm incredibly grateful to our Minnesota Task Force 1 K-9 Unit for stepping up and traveling to assist our neighbors in this time of tragedy.

Millions of Minnesotans get to live their lives better because she and Mark chose public service and politics.

A moment when each of us can recommit to engaging in politics and life the way Mark and Melissa did ― fiercely, enthusiastically, heartily, but without ever losing sight of our common humanity.

Maybe it is this moment where each of us can examine the way we work together, the way we talk about each other, the way we fight for things we care about.

She certainly knew how to get her way. No doubt about that. But she never made anyone feel that they’d gotten rolled at a negotiating table.

I know that in these times of this inexplicable, unexplainable tragedy, all of us are searching for some kind of meaning, some kind of lesson that we can learn to help ease our loss.

But let's not do it because of the way Mark and Melissa died. Let's do it because of the way they lived, and the way they led.

Maybe this is a moment when each of us can examine the way we work together, the way we talk about each other, the way we fight for the things we care about.

Her mission was to get as much good done for as many people as possible.

Melissa Hortman will be remembered as the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history – and I'll always remember her as a close friend, a mentor, and the most talented legislator I've ever known.

Melissa Hortman woke up every day determined to make our state a better place. She served the people of Minnesota with grace, compassion, and tirelessness.

Targeted political violence

I think I understand where that’s at.

A politically motivated assassination

Violence has no place in American politics.

Hortman's death a political assassination.

That's 48 hours that law enforcement [was] involved in a complex and dangerous manhunt, spent Father's Day away from their families to deliver justice for Melissa and Mark Hortman, and their children, who spent this Father's Day alone.