Political Quotes

“To my friend from Connecticut, thank you. I so admire that when you came to the Senate, it was right after perhaps the most tragic 2 hours in our Nation's recent existence with what happened to those kids--those young children in your congressional district. I say to Senator Murphy, how do we go home--I just hear this--I watched what happened at Sandy Hook, I watched what happened in Colorado, and I watched what happened in California. Now we see what happened in Orlando to those 49 mostly young men and women, mostly of Hispanic descent--mostly gay, we think--what happened to them. How do we go home and face people when this body fails year after year after year to do the right thing? I admire so much what Senator Murphy did when he came here and just got in the face of so many Members of the Senate and said: You have to do the right thing. My question for Senator Murphy is, How do we go home, look people in the eye, and say we failed again? I think this body should stay in session until we do a number of things, from confirming a Supreme Court Justice, to taking care of the mineworkers' pension, to this legislation. How do I go back to Cleveland and say: Well, we tried it again. We didn't do it. It is not that big a deal. If people can't fly on an airplane, they still ought to be able to get a gun. How do we possibly look people in the eye and answer that question?”