Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick) for yielding, and I thank Mr. Jackson for co-anchoring this evening's Special Order hour. Mr. Speaker, I rise on this day praying for the speedy recovery of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl of Kansas City, Missouri, who was released from the hospital today after being shot in the head for ringing the wrong doorbell. We live in a society today where more and more communities are living in a recurring nightmare, reeling from gun violence. Gun violence is the number one killer of children in the United States of America. While it has always been Black communities that have borne the brunt and have been the most victimized and terrorized by gun violence, and have too often assumed the blame of a poorly regulated gun industry, I truly expected that there would have been some bipartisan action taken to protect the next generation after the tragedy at Sandy Hook all those years ago. Instead, the far right stays licking the boot of the NRA, taking their blood money and looking the other way. It has become crystal clear that the rightwing Republicans couldn't care less. It is unconscionable that they care so little for the lives of children. I mean, look at what has happened just this past week in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama. Mass murder and mass casualties have become commonplace, but we can't make them normalized.…”