Tom McClintock: “The one witness that we really wanted to call... we weren't allowed to, and that is the whistleblower.”

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

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 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?

If a little waif showed up on your doorstep the first thing you are going to do is get that little child back to its family and its home.