Pat Roberts Quotes

Charles Patrick Roberts is an American politician of the Republican Party serving as the senior United States Senator from Kansas, a position he has held since 1997. Roberts previously served as the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Born in Topeka, Kansas, Roberts is a graduate of Kansas State University. He served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and worked as a newspaper reporter before entering politics in the late 1960s. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980 to succeed 1st District Congressman Keith Sebelius, for whom he had worked. He served eight terms in the House, including one as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee.

Roberts was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, and is currently serving his fourth term. On the Intelligence Committee, he was responsible for an investigation into the intelligence failures prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He is currently the dean of the Kansas congressional delegation.

✵ 20. April 1936
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Pat Roberts Quotes

“Certainly nobody under 21 should have an AR-15.”

Speaking to reporters at the state capital in Topeka on February 22, 2018 ( NRA-backed Sen. Pat Roberts: 'Nobody under 21 should have an AR-15', O'Keefe, Ed, February 22, 2018, The Washington Post, August 23, 2018, 0190-8286 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/02/22/nra-backed-sen-pat-roberts-nobody-under-21-should-have-an-ar-15/,; [Is This the Moment for Gun Control? A Gridlocked Congress Is Under Pressure, Sheryl, Gay Stolberg, Jonathan, Martin, Thomas, Kaplan, February 25, 2018, August 23, 2018, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/us/politics/gun-control-congress-governors.html]; [Kansas Republican backs raising age to buy semiautomatic rifles, Sophie, Tatum, February 22, 2018, August 23, 2018, CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/22/politics/pat-roberts-age-limits-guns/index.html]; [The Latest: Ban Proposed on Young Buying Assault Rifles, February 23, 2018, September 6, 2018, Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report, https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-02-22/the-latest-trump-says-guns-only-for-gun-adept-teachers]).

“You don't have any civil liberties if you're dead.”

[CNN, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/26/le.01.html, 2006-03-26, CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, 2006-08-22]

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