Political Quotes

“So the question that comes to mind is: Why are we here? It is because of the folks that I see every day that want to say: Congress doesn't do anything, the President does whatever he wants to do, why is Congress not doing anything? We are doing something. These bills that we are passing today move forward and say we are asserting our responsibility and our role. But this is what breaks my heart, really frankly, is that this should be bipartisan. This should be something we come down here and both agree on. It should be bipartisan that we should work together. For me, this is not an issue of who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania. That is irrelevant to me. What is important to me is this institution that was set up to make laws, to execute laws, and to judge the constitutionality of laws. That is the way our system was set up. It has changed through the years. If the Attorney General or the administration feels that there is a law that is wrong or unconstitutional, then the process is to come back to Congress and say here is our ideas, and you come to the elected representatives of the people. You don't continue to just say I don't like it, I am not going to enforce it; and for many of these, to say this is just simply prosecutorial discretion is an affront to the American people.…”