Political Quotes

“I thank my senior Senator from North Dakota, Mr. Hoeven. As we sat quietly in the hockey arena that Jason loved so much, we felt the pain of so many, including the literally hundreds of thousands of North Dakotans who watched the broadcast of the funeral but also listened on the radio. On the evening of Wednesday, February 10, Officer Jason Moszer did what so many police officers do on a daily basis--he went toward the danger to answer the call to serve and protect the citizens of Fargo, ND. Jason and the other officers who responded to that initial call knew they were encountering a dangerous situation. The domestic violence call that brought them there that evening had mentioned there might be a firearm involved. Yet those officers did not hesitate that night. A short time later, shots rang out, and then those words--those words that will never be forgotten by his fellow officers--were heard: ``Officer down.'' Yet, even in the darkest of hours, the men and women of the Fargo Police Department maintained their composure and continued the critical work of securing the surrounding neighborhood and trying to bring this dangerous situation to a resolution. Later that night the city of Fargo, the State of North Dakota, our neighboring community of Moorhead, ND, and certainly his home community of Sabin, lost one of its finest when Officer Moszer succumbed to his injuries.…”