Political Quotes

“May I ask one more question and then I will turn it back to Senator Stabenow, who I know has some questions for Senator Murphy. I want to share a letter I received from a woman in Columbus: I'm devastated by the events this weekend in Orlando. Frankly, I have had to personally be retriggered with every mass shooting that's occurred in the past three years. My tragedy occurred 3 years ago this July. The love of my life, best friend and man I was going to marry was murdered. . . . He was shot to death by a prior felon--with a gun. It can happen to anyone, anywhere, at anytime, for any reason. Change is needed now. We can't keep waiting. . . . Please do something. Anything. Saving one person from feeling the hell I've felt these past three years is worth it. My heart hurts for the loved ones affected by this weekend, because I know this pain. I guess this is just a question, and maybe there is no answer. But why, when so many in our country have felt this pain--certainly, the pain is felt more among poorer people and people of color because they have been the victims far too often and, in the great majority of cases, are totally innocent, and far too many of them are children, whether it is Sandy Hook or a random shooting in Cleveland or Newark or Hartford or Detroit or New Haven. What do I tell this woman from Cincinnati or from Columbus who says to me: Can't you do something? Why should more people have the pain she has felt?”