Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman for yielding, and let me personally on this floor--I have said it many times--offer my sympathy to Lucy McBath for the pain that she continues to live with for the loss of her son. Let me say to my friends, your arguments could not be more absurd. Over these last 2 days, I have heard welfare state; I am a person of faith as all who profess such, challenging whether or not we have faith; speaking about the absurdity of not understanding the Constitution; disrespecting the democratic system that we have; that there will be an outrageous attack on individuals with the red flag laws. You are just simply wrong. My plea is to the American people because you can force people who masquerade as believing that it is a shame for children to die, but yet do nothing. This is the side of doing absolutely nothing but casting aspersions and challenging what is right. Red flag laws are right. Why? Indiana passed it in 2005, and in years since, the State's firearms suicide rate has gone down 7.5 percent. They work. A little boy, 16 years old, in New York was getting ready to shoot up his students, had shotguns at home. An order was put forward, and he admitted that not having the guns in the home was helpful and the order helped him. Is there no desire to do something in the name of those who died wrongly in Buffalo? Is there no desire? Are you not in any way aware of Zaire, a mother's child trying to work in a job and was severely injured?…”