Political Quotes

“I would rebut a couple of things. When you quote statistics saying 94 percent of all drugs coming into the country are stopped at interior checkpoints or ports of entry, that is an inaccurate statement. It is 94 percent of drugs that are interdicted, that we catch, that is where you catch them. Why do you catch them there? I mean, this is not rocket science. You catch them there because you have personnel there. You have drug- sniffing dogs. You have X-ray machines that are looking at trucks. You have personnel there. But I will tell you what you don't have. Come with me to San Miguel Gate. I have been all over southern Texas. I have been all over southern Arizona and Southern California. Come with me to San Miguel Gate. There is nothing near the San Miguel Gate. The nearest town south of the border is Caborca; that is 2 hours away. You know what happens? You have more got-aways, known and unknown, through that sector than anywhere else in the country. Good grief. They don't want to be caught because they are the ones that are bringing in drugs and human trafficking. That is just kind of a fallacious argument. The next thing is when you say, only two people voted to increase Homeland Security funding, it was because it was an omnibus bill. You had every Christmas tree ornament in the world on that puppy, just enough to drive every Republican off but two. Yeah, if we had done 12 bills like so many of us advocate, you might have seen a different thing.…”