Political Quotes

“I rise to speak about yesterday's horrific tragedy in Texas, and I won't be long; I know we have votes coming up. But I wanted to start by expressing, I think, both the grief and the outrage that we see all across the country that, yet again--and not just another tragedy. In this case, the death of the 19 children and 2 adults, at least that is the latest reporting, but also indicating that the deaths took place because an armed gunman came into a school with body armor protecting him from the response from any law enforcement. So we have another example, in barely less than a week, where a gunman goes into a setting in a grocery store in Buffalo, NY, and now into a school where second graders, third graders, and fourth graders are killed because he has a high-powered weapon, and he is fully protected from any law enforcement or any other response. And we are supposed to just get used to this, I guess. That seems to be the response here in Washington. Now, this isn't a problem of Congress, more broadly, or the executive branch of our government. This is a problem--the failure to address this problem, even to pass something as simple as background check legislation--this is a problem in the Senate of one side. You have got 50 U.S. Senators who are Republicans who have refused now for years to pass anything remotely resembling commonsense gun measures. I would support a whole series of bills that we could talk about. We don't have time today.…”