Tom McClintock: “When we were managing that land in a sustainable manner it supported a thriving economy.”

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

Americans are sick and tired of being treated like second-class citizens in our own country.

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?

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.