Tom McClintock: “So to borrow a Clinton maximum, it is the spending stupid.”

You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing. It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You shall now give way to better men.

When the history of this administration is written, I would not want to be you looking back on what historians say about your tenure.

In this country, we don't have Americans--or old Americans or new Americans; we just have my fellow Americans.

When we were at the Yuma border a year ago we talked to a group of rank and file Border Patrol agents and one thing I said is, look, we are the Congress. We cannot enforce the laws. We write laws so what laws do you need us to write?