Political Quotes

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.

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.

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?

To me, that's the most fundamental definition of citizenship.