"I had full intentions of doing that."
"Custom and Border Protection has reported over 6.5 million alien encounters at our Southern Border under this administration."
"It remains and has been lawlessness to cross that border, Southern Border, would undermine the rule of law."
"There is a passage in the Bible that I find interesting. I think it is appropriate."
"Lawlessness is contagious. Lawlessness of an open border encourages lawlessness of the fentanyl drug trade."
"First thing I thought about, I'm going to break my hand on this guy's face, I'm going to take my wedding ring off."
"Under the Trump administration, we saw a 45-year low of illegal aliens coming to the border in 2019."
"Anti-Semitic demonstrations are taking place on college campuses across the country, and anti-Semitism is up nearly 400 percent in the United States since the Israel-Hamas War began."
"Our decaying national security is on full display. We know the Southern Border is open."
"Illegal aliens definitely know the Southern Border is open. The policies are what is causing millions to come to the border."
"Criminal convictions by the Department of Justice against human trafficking is also down 48 percent since 2019."
"If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here."
"What a clown, fraud, always has been, always will be."
"It is our job as Members of Congress to address what we can, and what we can do is change those incentives that are leveraging the Southern Border."
"It should be no surprise that policies that encourage the explosive number of illegal immigrants coming across our Southern Border are also a correlation tied into human smuggling increases, human sex..."
"According to the compensation data report of the U.S. Commerce Department, an average salary for private sector employee in 2019 was $4,000 higher than the average employee in forced union states."
"I have no problem with unions. I have problems with unions forcing people to join unions."
"One piece of legislation that is a priority for me is the Credit Card Competition Act which I am cosponsoring with Senator Durbin."