Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Arizona for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I am still sickened by the sight that I saw, that all of us saw: two officers who showed up to work, an assassination attempt, attempted execution, just for sitting in their car, for honoring their pledge to preserve and protect the safety of the citizens they serve. For the past month, law enforcement officers have endured attacks, have been shot at, bottles thrown at, fireworks, glass bottles, powerful lasers attempted to blind them. This year, as my friend from Texas said, 43 law enforcement officers have been killed, nearly twice the rate of last year. And what is coming from the other side of the Chamber here? You got it. Silence. When elected leaders refuse to stand with our law enforcement officers and continue to bend to the whims of violent mobs, we lose our civilization. We lose our civil society. Now, you think, when you watch TV maybe you see it on the news, it is happening far away, thousands of miles away across our country. But right in Pennsylvania where I live, south central Pennsylvania, just on Monday, unfortunately, violent riots came to the streets on the heels of the death of Ricardo Munoz, a mentally ill 27-year-old who was captured on a police officer's body camera charging at the officer with a knife in his hand. Now, the death of Ricardo Munoz is a tragedy, no doubt, and my prayers are with Mr. Munoz's family.…”