Political Quotes

“the headline of the article reads: ``Trump Retreats on Separating Families, but Thousands Will Remain Apart.'' We need to know, and that, obviously, isn't going to be acceptable to the American people if that is what it is. The last point I want to make tonight, because I know I have other colleagues here, is that it does not help matters when the President is completely allergic to the truth on any dimension but especially on this one. Today, at the White House, in front of all of the cameras and in front of the Republicans he invited there--he didn't invite any Democrats--this is what he said in lamenting the fact that he couldn't do a deal with Democrats. This is the President: We're having a lot of problem with Democrats. They don't care about lack of security, they would like to have open borders, where anybody in the world can just flow, including from the Middle East--from anybody anywhere they can just flow into our country. Tremendous problems with that. Tremendous crime caused by that. We are just not going to do it. That is what he said is our position. As the Presiding Officer knows, I was on the Gang of 8 in 2013 that negotiated what was called the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Enforcement Act of 2013. The first two words in that title are ``border security.'' It got 68 votes on this floor. Every single Democrat voted for it.…”