Political Quotes

“I want to first say I'm so proud of all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle who have spoken today. Gabby has brought us all together as never before. I'm a good friend of Gabby Giffords. She's a good friend of mine. I first met her before she ran for Congress when a mutual friend said to me, You ought to meet this lady. She wants to run for Congress and wants some advice. Would you give it to her? I called Gabby. She called me back. We spoke. And she decided to run, and we've been good friends ever since. My colleagues have all said it today: Gabby is as kind and as sweet and as nice a person as you could ever meet. She's considerate, she's thoughtful, she's caring, smart, hardworking. It's hard to believe that anyone would want to harm her. She was doing what she always did--going out in service of her constituents, helping her constituents, going out to a shopping center. You know, I have another connection with Gabby. My son Jonathan attended the University of Arizona, just graduated this year. And she and I spoke many times about Tucson. I have been to Tucson many, many times in these past 5 years. I've even shopped in the Safeway, tragically, where the gunman shot all of the people, including Gabby. You know, Gabby said something to me this past August as we recessed. I served as the chair of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Gabby served on my subcommittee, and we talked about having a field hearing in Tucson.…”