Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. This is an interesting argument, as I stated before, because it really defies, in many ways, logic. The best way to help prevent what has just happened is to enforce the law. It is not to give a substantive, wishy-washy: Well, I won't enforce this. I don't want to enforce this. I am making a political judgment. In fact, that is really what the law should be there for, is to say: This is the law that has been passed through the political process, but this is the law for everyone. When you have the debates in Congress, that is what the political argument is for. I don't disagree with my friend from Colorado, as this is the part that we are supposed to debate; but once it leaves here and it is printed and it is law and it is signed, it is to be enforced. To really argue that, on this side, we don't want to enforce, and, on this side, we want to enforce, where does it end--when we don't want to enforce drug laws? trafficking laws? employment law? Where does it end? I am sure there are political differences in many cities, possibly in my own district of the Ninth District of Georgia, where cities say: I am not sure I like this employment law. I am not sure I like having to deal with compliance, with Federal law. We will just ignore it. No. It is about enforcement. Lopez-Sanchez was requested by ICE. Whether you are talking about limited resources or whether you are talking about a lot of resources, it doesn't matter.…”