Political Quotes

We have to start there. The harm being done to our children far outweighs.

I absolutely agree with the surgeon general. And I want to give a quick shout-out to Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, who was the former chair of the National Governors Association, who took this issue on as his initiative for a year. We absolutely believe this is the issue of our time. We have seen a 63% increase in persistent loneliness and sadness among young women especially over the past ten to 12 years in the state of Utah. We have seen, again, suicide rates going up, depression, anxiety, self-harm rates skyrocketing. And what we know also is it corresponds with social media becoming ubiquitous and cell phones becoming ubiquitous with our teenagers. Those numbers you cited from the surgeon general are deeply troubling and really sad. We have to take control of this.

I think there is a choice between the extremes and the exhausted majority, and that's the conversation we've been having this week with Republican governors and Democrat governors coming together.

There is one person responsible for what happened here, and that person is now in custody and will be charged soon and will be held accountable.