Political Quotes

“tomorrow at 11 o'clock we are going to vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to the gun legislation that is now before this body. This morning and throughout the day, our friend from Connecticut spoke, a freshman Senator who was brought to the Senate with this tragedy having taken place shortly after he arrived. My friend the Presiding Officer, a longtime attorney general, the chief law enforcement officer of the State of Connecticut, has lived with this tragedy that happened at Sandy Hook like nothing that ever happened in his career. And, of course, for Senator Heinrich, a new Senator, this was something he never appreciated he would be faced with. I saw the pictures today of those little babies who were murdered, some of them shot multiple times--little tiny kids shot multiple times. The shooting was on December 14, about 4 months ago--120 days. So the time has come--it has arrived--when we have to debate this issue. We have to have a response to this tragedy. When this incident took place on December 14, it struck me, as it did everyone in America--virtually everyone in America; we had been through Aurora, CO--that vicious, brutal machine-gunning of people going to watch a movie, and then little kids getting killed in an elementary school, kindergartners, first-graders--so we need to respond, this great deliberative body, to what the American people want. So we are going to vote. It is time to vote. I hope we get cloture on this matter.…”