"I think they are devastating. They are beyond showing political preferences. It very much impacts peoples' perception of fairness."
"He is the best hope to produce a product that my fellow citizens can have confidence in. It will not come from Congress. Let me assure you of that."
"Anytime you have a hearing title that has the word 'preventable' in it, I think we owe it to our fellow citizens to discuss the limitations of our justice system."
"My colleague from Virginia, Mr. Goodlatte, made a reference to domestic violence convictions as being a prohibiting act from possessing, even a single bullet, much less an AR-15."
"You cannot possess a bullet, if you have been convicted of domestic violence."
"If there is a restraining order with the element of violence, that person is prohibited from having a single bullet, much less an AR-15."
"Since there is a lot of conversation about mental health and mental illness, we have a statute that if you have been adjudicated mentally defective, or you have been committed to a mental institution,..."
"When you are innocent, if the allegation collusion with the Russians, and there is no evidence of that. And you're innocent of that, act like it."
"if you're innocent, act it."
"Mr. President, if you are innocent, including of collusion, why are you acting the way you have been acting?"
"Given the time, the resources, the independence to do his job and when you are innocent, if the allegations collude you with the Russians and there is no evidence of that and you're innocent of that, ..."
"In Congress we just assume politics infects and invades everything."