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I will get stronger. I will return.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Return
Stronger
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Be bold, be courageous, be your best.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Graduation
Be Courageous
Be Your Best
Courageous
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Physically
Speaking
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Courageous
Passionate
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Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Having Hope
Hope And Faith
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Guns
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The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Beautiful
Looks
Political
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I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Fighting
Stills
World
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Courageous
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Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Inches
Trials
Yards
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I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Yoga
Therapy
Lots
Physical
Working Hard
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Dying
Big Problem
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My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Fighting
Safer
Safer Place
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I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Arizona
Legislature
State Legislature
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Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Shine Bright
Shining
World
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Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Country
Mean
Strong
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While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Recovery
Extent
Day Better Every Day
Getting Better
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Aisle
Politics Good Believe
American People
Crossing
Strongly
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In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Absence
Gun
Reduce
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Dating
Abuse
Choosing
Couples
Marry
Partner
Updated
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Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Women
Fall
Gun
Owners
Rights
Used
Everywhere
Guns
Wrong
Every Time
Injure
Intimidate
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Better Place
Community
Example
Fighting
Involved
Leader
Passionate
Best World Fighting
Best Better World
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From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Checks
Hampshire
New Hampshire
Both Parties
Parties
Policies
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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.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Office
Party
Tea
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Checks
Criminals
Expanding
Gun
Ill
Obtaining
Powerful
Weapons
Mentally
Background
Dangerously
Standard
Prevent
Purchases
Uniform
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Rehab
Repetitive
Endlessly
Mastered
Move On
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Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Generations
Gun
Owners
Weapon
Powerful Weapon
Skill
Sons
Steward
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My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Convince Us
Majority
Path
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Brain
Injured
Recovery
Therapy
Music Where Your
Area
Centers
Different Parts
Parts
Stages
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Arizona
Congress
Eyesight
Paralyzed
Representing
Southern
Struggle
Arm
Great Look Me
Leg
Mostly
Right Arm
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Better Place
Continuing
Fighting
Public Service
Family World Me
Cared
For The People
Planned
Service
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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.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Bullets
Elementary School
Gun
Hook
Sandy
Senators
Compared
Elementary
Ended
Lobby
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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.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Names
Numbers
Powerful
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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 / Former United States Representative
Decision
People
Sound
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Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Therapy
Arm
Countless
Talents
Right Arm
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Arms
Gun
Heritage
Patriot
Shooting
Unlikely
Advocate
Bear
Believe I Believe Gun
Consider
Definitive
Injuries
Sustained
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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 / Former United States Representative
Memorable
Sacrifice
Strong
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Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost... I will get stronger. I will return.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Grateful
Hard Work
Long
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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 / Former United States Representative
Gun
People
Sight
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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 / Former United States Representative
Expression
Ideas
Integrity
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As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Deranged
Gun
Owners
Second Amendment
Acts
Amendment
Criminal
Gun Laws
Oppose
Protects
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We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Men
Children
Ignorance
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Agree
Checks
Expanding
Firearms
Gun
Ill
Mental Health
Owners
Penalties
Resources
Trafficking
Treatment
Alike
Stiff
Guns
Domestic
Receive
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Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.
Gabrielle Giffords / Former United States Representative
Gun
School
Two
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