Political Quotes

“Through the Chair, if my friend from Connecticut will yield again, I was in a meeting yesterday with a group of Democratic Senators. I heard two of the youngest and most impressive Members of our caucus, Senator Booker and Senator Murphy, talk about the number of gun deaths in this country. My wife and I live in the city of Cleveland. We live in the ZIP Code in Cleveland that in 2007 had more foreclosures than any ZIP Code in the United States of America. We live in a nice neighborhood of about 250 homes. Most of the rest of the neighborhood has suffered--some in our neighborhood and many outside that neighborhood--foreclosure after foreclosure and urban blight. Many nights we heard gunshots, and then we heard police sirens. I know Senator Booker said--and I think my friend from Connecticut heard him talk about what he sees in Newark and what we see. Just 3 weeks ago, we had a terrible, terrible number of deaths in southern, very rural Appalachia, southern Ohio, where apparently one family member killed a whole bunch of others with a gun. I got a letter today or yesterday from a man in Toledo: I am a gay man living in Toledo, OH, and I have never been to a gay pride event. This year was going to be my year, and I am scared.…”