The scourge of gun violence and political violence must end. The shooting of Charlie Kirk is the latest incident of this chaos and it must stop. We cannot go down this road.

Are we going to do something or are we going to argue over rhetoric? … We have to pass gun safety legislation and stop this… People can finger point all they want.

We have to pass gun safety legislation and stop this.

From the moment I was elected, I have felt that I accept a certain level of risk in doing this job.

There is no understanding as we know publicly, of who this individual is, what their motivations were, where they came from. Whether it is a member of Congress, whether it is the president of the United States—to assume and assert, cast…

This is horrific. This is awful.

Are we going to do something, or are we going to argue over rhetoric? That is my question about this.

If they want Democratic votes, I think we need to have a high price.

I am very concerned about the example that is being set by anybody in our party … if an individual doesn’t want to support the party’s nominee now, it complicates their ability to ask voters to support any nominee later.

Because what we do is we use our primary to settle our differences, and once we have a nominee we rally behind that nominee.

We have a Democratic nominee. Are we a party who rallies behind our nominee or not?

If anyone says, ‘This isn’t fair. I’m going to have to divest all my stocks if I’m going to run for Congress,’ maybe you should stay home.