We need to realize that the rhetoric, and the firing people up and … for example, we’re on Sarah Palin’s ‘targeted’ list, but the thing is, the way she has it depicted, we’re in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they’ve gotta realize that there are consequences to that action.
— U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, in an interview with MSNBC after her office was targeted with threats, vandalism and harassment following her vote for healthcare last spring.