Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Texas for having this conversation. I don't think I was yelling--but I will go watch the tape--or screaming at you. I also have never called anybody on this floor a liar, as you did, in 2015. I get the theatrics of all of this. I guess I want to say two things. One, I appreciate the fact that you, at least, seem to be accepting the fact that every Democrat who is here, on that immigration bill in 2013, voted for it--voted for the 350 miles of wall you are talking about. You didn't vote for that bill or the Senator from Texas didn't vote for that bill, and I assume you had your reasons. By the way, I wouldn't presume to think what the Senator would think about as a person from a border State. My State is not far from the border. We see the effects for ill and for good of immigration in my State. I do know this. There were two Senators from a border State--the border State of Arizona--who were on that Gang of 8 bill, with whom I sat, day after day, negotiating the provisions for months. They didn't have to just vote for the bill or against it, but they had to go home to Arizona--John McCain and Jeff Flake did--and explain why they supported it and why it was the right thing to do for Arizona, which, as the Senator from Texas knows, is a border State. The idea that there is a problem to be solved here because Democrats in this Chamber are for open borders is false, as the Senator indicated.…”