Tom McClintock: “Mr. Nelson, I need to ask a politically incorrect question that has been nagging at me.”

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.

These are people who promised their constituents not to raise their taxes. And those five no votes just voted for the biggest tax increase in American history.

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?