"This is old in the 1950s war style 'Soprano' type politics, that, you know, you go along to get along and you don't talk about these things in my district if you want something in your district."
"I don't think it was a small matter. And I think the attorney general -- I'm disappointed he didn't remember that in his statement."
"It will establish operational control of the border. Now, most people think we ought to have that now, but we haven't. We do not have operational control of the border."
"If you take the caption with the text that is right along with the report, it says that we don't believe that they have gotten there. But the point of that whole section is, they're trying to enrich u..."
"I think it would be a big mistake for him as a matter of principle out of some fanciful idea that he could not support a lawful system and appeal for votes."
"We passed an amnesty and made a promise in the future that we would have enforcement, and it never came."
"We need to tighten up a number of things from enforcement to actually the how we handle the amnesty portion of the bill and how we do future immigrations."
"I think the American people don't feel good about a protest that says we don't have to comply with American law."
"Well, we make decisions up here, you know, irrespective of who's at the White House. And I think this has a lot of merit."
"I'm not impressed. That's not -- I'm not going to now line up and say, oh, great, we've got a compromise and this is going to be the law."
"He was one of the most fabulous witnesses we've ever seen before the Judiciary Committee."
"The record is there that there have been more failures on his watch as director of CIA, massive failures of intelligence, than anybody I know."
"We are spending only a pittance on getting our scientific evidence produced in an honest and effective way. As a result, justice is being delayed, and justice delayed is justice denied."
"Some of us cannot pass up the opportunity to say thank you to Bob Livingston for his service to his country."
"Congressman Livingston's 22 years of steady, respected, and effective public service to the State proved that Louisiana did not always deserve its perception as a political backwater."
"I don't know any better spokesman that could be had, because he has been a workhorse in helping Louisianians achieve their ambitions."
