Political Quotes

“I rise with my colleague Senator Brown, who has just spoken about this terrible tragedy that occurred in our State on Monday at Chardon High School in Geauga County. I was calling into a radio program in the Cleveland area on Monday morning when the first reports started to come in. Frankly, it was unbelievable that there could be a shooting anywhere but certainly in a high school and in this community that I visited that Senator Brown and I both know. Unfortunately, the rumors ended up being true and the tragedy is--as Senator Brown has just described so well--that lives were cut short and these were lives full of promise. We will never know those young people Senator Brown was just talking about as adults, but we will always remember them, and now they are memorialized in the Congressional Record. My wife Jane and I have been keeping the families in our prayers, and for that matter the entire Chardon High School community. We continue to pray for the healing of those who were injured in flesh and in spirit through this terrible act. As the parent of a high school student who is about the same age as these young people, I cannot imagine what the parents have gone through over the last 4 days. Chardon is a beautiful community. It is almost a New England-style town on the Western Reserve, with a beautiful town square. It is a place of certainty, and that certainty, of course, now has been shattered. It touches so many people around Ohio.…”