My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

The absence of fear is love.

I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me.

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

Every new morning brings new freshness and new renewal.

The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

Back home the black women are all beautiful

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

Being real is what is important.

Don't confuse wealth with success.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.