Political Quotes

“I hope all Members of Congress--Democrats and Republicans, Members of the House and Senate--take a long, hard look this morning, maybe in the mirror, and ask themselves: Where do I stand? Yet again our country is faced with another sickening act of gun violence. Yesterday's shooting rampage took the lives of 14 people and wounded at least 17 more, a number of those grievously injured. That wasn't the only shooting yesterday; a gunman in Georgia killed a woman and injured three others. So where do we stand? We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and it is nothing less than sickening. Fort Hood, 13 dead; Tucson, 6 dead; Carson City, 4 dead; Aurora, 12 dead; Newtown, 20 little children, 6 educators; the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, 12 dead; Las Vegas, 3 dead, two of whom were police officers. And I have heard this talk: Oh, it is so unusual, a husband and wife. These three people killed in Las Vegas were killed by a husband-and-wife team. In Charleston, nine dead; Moneta, VA, two dead-- on live television, he came to kill two people. At Umpqua Community College, nine dead; Colorado Springs, three dead. That tragic list is nowhere close to being comprehensive. The one in Georgia yesterday--one dead, two wounded. It hardly made the press. But the ones I just mentioned are a few that we picked up earlier this morning in my office. It would be very difficult to list all the mass killings that have taken place in recent years. Why?…”