Mr. President, I wish to express my disapproval of the President's request of a debt limit increase of $1.2 trillion, which would place the total limit just below $16.4 trillion. The requested increase amounts to nearly $4,000 of…

Madam President, on January 4, 2012, Special Agent Francom of the Ogden, Utah Police Department, serving on the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force, was fatally wounded while defending his fellow officers as they attempted to serve a…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolution (S. Res…

I'm not going to go find grandmothers and take them out of their homes and deport them. Those are your words, not my words.

Well, you've just heard the last two speakers also indicate that they support the concept of self-deportation.

I'm Mitt Romney, and I'm pleased to be here with my wife and my oldest son Tagg Romney.

I'm proud of being successful. I'm proud of being in the free enterprise system that creates jobs for other people.

Look, let's put behind this idea of attacking me because of my investments or my money, and let's get Republicans to say, you know what? What you've accomplished in your life shouldn't be seen as a detriment. It should be seen as an asset…

When I'm shot at, I will return fire. I'm no shrinking violet.

This idea of going state to state and promising what people want to hear, promising billions, hundreds of billions of dollars to make people happy, that's what got us into the trouble we're in now. We've got to say no to this kind of…

Mr. Speaker, I'm not anti-immigrant. My father was born in Mexico. My wife's father was born in Wales. They came to this country. The idea that I'm anti-immigrant is repulsive.

I have earned the money that I have. I didn't inherit it. I take risks. I make investments.

My investments for the last ten years have in a blind trust, managed by a trustee.

Well said. I see my time's expired. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Taranto.

I decided to go into law really with the realization and I think appreciation as a first-generation immigrant that this country is a country that is governed by the rule of law.

the text is the guiding--is the principle guidepost. The text normally is the beginning and the end of the analysis when you are interpreting something.

One of the things that I've always admired about that justice was his commitment to the text and his commitment to the notion that the law supplies an answer.

I do completely agree that judicial temperament is extremely important.