Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the House of Representatives and the privilege to also have the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Akin) yield to me as he delivers the leadership hour presentation on the economic situation here in the United States and the opportunity to say a few words on that particular subject. And I may revert back to that subject, Mr. Speaker. However, I would shift this subject a little bit over onto a subject matter that seems to be on the minds and lips of Americans all across this country. I have had the privilege to travel to some of the corners of America in the last few weeks and had my conversations in the coffee shops and in the restaurants and in city halls and in meeting places, and I was a little bit surprised that--I had had the perception that in my district immigration becomes an issue that is very much front and center, and I expect that's going to be the case in States like Arizona, California, Texas, those States that are border States, New Mexico, where you have a large number of illegal border crossings. But I didn't expect it would be the case in the Northeast, for example, and other places across the country to the intensity that it was. I found that at every stop someone would bring up immigration.…”