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Gabrielle Giffords
9 quotes
“My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.”
Gabrielle Giffords (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.”
Gabrielle Giffords (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the years that some of my colleagues have served — 20, 30 years — they’ve never seen it like this.”
Gabrielle Giffords (born 1970) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discussing being "targeted" by Sarah Palin, in March 2010 interview with MSNBC —
“We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action.”
Gabrielle Giffords (born 1970) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After experiencing vandalism directed at her congressional office in 2010 —
“Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.”
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“But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying "no" to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.”
Gabrielle Giffords (born 1970) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commencement address, Scripps College, 2009 — http://www.scrippscollege.edu/about/commencement/gabrielle-giffords.php
“It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.”
Gabrielle Giffords (born 1970) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of her first visit to Jerusalem Israel National News 1/8/2011
“This defeat is only the latest chapter of what I’ve always known would be a long, hard haul. Our democracy’s history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate — people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list. Mark my words: if we cannot make our communities safer with the Congress we have now, we will use every means available to make sure we have a different Congress, one that puts communities’ interests ahead of the gun lobby’s. To do nothing while others are in danger is not the American way.”
Gabrielle Giffords (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children who survived the massacre must feel every time they remember their teachers stacking them into closets and bathrooms, whispering that they loved them, so that love would be the last thing the students heard if the gunman found them. On Wednesday, a minority of senators gave into fear and blocked common-sense legislation that would have made it harder for criminals and people with dangerous mental illnesses to get hold of deadly firearms — a bill that could prevent future tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., Aurora, Colo., Blacksburg, Va., and too many communities to count.”
Gabrielle Giffords (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source