Peter Welch actually said...

"We still seem in this country, much more than any other countries, to rely on the prison system to be the place where we somehow quote, 'address those issues.'"

"What people don't realize is--they feel like mental health courts sort of soft-on-crime type of stuff, but it truly is crime fighting."

"If a person who's going to serve as the judge is advocating terrorism, or supports terrorism, or sexual misconduct, then that would be a disqualifier."

"And you condemn what Hamas did to innocent Israelis on October 7th, and you condemn what terrorists did to New York on 9/11?"