Quotes

Families like mine, all across the country, know all too well about the damage these weapons can do.

(Arguing in favor of gun control)"Play with the devil, die with the devil! You will never know what it's like because you didn't have someone in your family killed. It's not the person who's killed. It's the whole family that's affected."

[on drug use by Senator Lincoln Chafee and his own drug use] "Now, when I hear someone talking about a Rhode Island politician whose father was a Senator and who got to Washington on his family name, used cocaine and wasn't very smart, I know there is only a 50-50 chance it's me".

(On the consequences of his auto accident in 2006) "I expect at the end of the day to have made sure that I will have done the same thing, in terms of the charges, in terms of bookings, in terms of mug shots, fingerprints, whatever they might have me do, it's what anyone else would have done to them if they were an African American in Anacostia and they were picked up and they were made to stay overnight in a jail, because there was no one else to pick them up."