Tom McClintock: “A deficit is simply a future tax in the form either of debt or inflation.”

I think it actually saved the city of South Lake Tahoe from the Caldor Fire.

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.

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.