Political Quotes

“First of all, thank you for the question. But I just want to reiterate the friendship I have with Chris Murphy and his willingness to spend the night with me here on the floor as we go hour after hour after hour. I just want to say this again, and I am going to say it a few times in this long speech that will go on for as long as I am physically able. Chris, the last time we spent 15 hours on this floor together was a health issue. It was yet another stunning mass shooting, this time at the Pulse nightclub. You and I talked a lot before we got on this floor, and I think the agony that you and I were feeling was, how can this be the strongest Nation in the world, organized government? If you read our founding documents, if you read our Founding Fathers, one of the first things they organized this government for--you know, it is good to carry around the Constitution. It is so important to understand what the preamble to the Constitution says we are about. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Which each one of us, each one of us in this body, went down there and swore an oath to uphold. Those are the first words of this, Chris. And, God, I remember your agony.…”