"I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power."
"Do you believe that you would come under political pressure from leading Democrats on this committee who want you to arrest 500 more people?"
"I believe that we are involved in a crisis in this country. We have been through one. I think January 6 was a very difficult time and a crisis."
"I am disturbed that the Acting Chief of the U.S. Capitol Hill Police, who was in charge of intelligence, did not show today."
"We need to take away children."
"It hasn't been good, and the American people don't like the idea that we're separating families. We never really intended to do that."
"I'm not going to unrecuse myself because I have a conflict, because I did--was involved in the campaign and knew some things, can't do it."
"Yes, hopefully people will get the message."
"I think we ought to clarify it one way or the other so the public is out there not breaking Federal law."
"I see that the fact that no one was being prosecuted for this as a factor in a five-fold increase in four years in this kind of illegal immigration so, yes, hopefully people will get the message and c..."