Tom McClintock: “And shouldn't we count the dam hatchery fish when we're assessing salmon?”

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

The Chief of the Border Patrol told us at Eagle Pass that he says, I am standing in front of an open fire hydrant with a bucket. I do not need more buckets. I need somebody to shut off the fire hydrant.

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.

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?