Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman's yielding and putting this together. It is such an important issue. I just left another meeting, and we were talking about border security. There shouldn't even be a fight, because what we are talking about is what we are charged with in Congress, Republicans and Democrats, and the President. We have all taken that oath, and that oath talks about protecting our country and upholding our Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. When you look at border security, that should not be a partisan issue if you focus on border security and take politics out of it--not Donald Trump's fence, not a party's fence; this is security for the American people. Just last week, there was a bust of drugs coming in from Mexico in a load of bell peppers that had over 1,000 pounds of methamphetamines. It was valued at $1.2 billion, coming from our southern border. That came through a legal border checkpoint. That is border security that we are not doing that we should do that erodes the very social fabric of this Nation. Two weeks before that, there was a bust of a legal truck coming in carrying cucumbers from the southern border through Mexico that had over 200 pounds of fentanyl. In fact, it had enough fentanyl to kill an estimated 55 million Americans--55 million Americans. Again, it came through a legal checkpoint.…”