the level of immaturity is beyond words

I wouldn't have done it.

Let me be clear: Sanctuary policies do not protect Americans. They protect criminal illegal aliens.

Senator Graham wants to make sure the president gets exactly what he wants. He’s a rubber stamp.

Despite President Trump's efforts to secure the border and enforce the law, Democrat-run sanctuary cities and states are siding with illegal aliens.

real border security without fueling Washington’s addiction to waste.

Tariffs are taxes, and the power to tax belongs to Congress—not the president.

I just find this incredibly petty.

I wouldn't have done it. The images you saw in the Soviet Union and North Korea, we were proud not to be that.

Petty vindictiveness like this … it makes you wonder about the quality of people you're dealing with.

I’m arguing from a true belief and worry that our country is mired in debt and getting worse, and they choose to react by uninviting my grandson to the picnic.

They've decided they want to declare war on my family and exclude us from the White House.

They’re afraid of what I’m saying, so they think they’re going to punish me, I can’t go to the picnic, as if somehow that’s going to make me more conciliatory.

It really makes me lose a lot of respect I once had for Donald Trump.

I think I’m the first senator in the history of United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic.

I think I'm the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic.

I wouldn’t have done it.

I can't, in good conscience, give up every principle that I stand for and every principle that I was elected upon, and that's that we can't accumulate more debt.