Betsy DeVos Quotes

Whose child has to die next?

It's senseless. I've lost several uncles, I've lost my best friend to gun violence in New Orleans.

Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?

I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I hear that sound when things hit the ground still. Anything.' If I could, I would make it so nothing ever hit the ground again.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.

Yeah? Okay," she said, staring up into the stars. "Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo's already dead? He thought she was dead so he killed himself right next to her?" "Yeah. That was awesome." A pause, followed by "Ow," suggested elbow punctuation on the part of Mik. Karou ignored it. "Well, imagine if she woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But he had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.

And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apart. Harry grabbed Hermione's hand as they staggered and stumbled over stone and wood. 'No - no - no!' someone was shouting. 'No! Fred! No!' And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?

My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.

And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.