Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, back in high school when I was a senior at a pregame warm-up at Carthage, I had my hands under the center about to take a snap, throw a pass--the manager had my helmet--I am looking at the split end, and the manager yelled, Louie, and I looked up in time to have my nose splattered all over my face. That is what this warning will be. It is not going to stop violence. It is just going to say, look, we have got more violence. Let's talk about what it really is. The truth is, these cities with the most violence in America--and there are already 1,400 warning systems that will already take care of this, but, apparently, we need more help in the big cities controlled by Democrats. We are not going to lower the crime rate. I have spent much of my adult life in courtrooms dealing with crime. I am familiar with what causes it, what happens. My heart has gone out repeatedly to victims, but you have got to reduce crime. How can we do that? We have brought up repeatedly in committee over the years, 17 and a half years I have been here, look, let's go to the heart of what is causing the crime. I saw a recent report that said fatherlessness definitely is affecting the crime. It definitely is affecting the violence. It is increasing the violence. We have always had guns, but we haven't had mass shootings like this, mass killings. The culture has changed.…”