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

The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.

There are all sorts of shades of gray when you're working on economic policy and tax policy and health care policy. There's no gray on this issue, to me. This is a gun lobby that is raging out of control, that doesn't even represent its own members.

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.

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

What is happening in Iraq now is awful, but it is a consequence of our invasion, not our withdrawal.

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