Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, I very much thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for coming to the floor and voicing his opinion. And I know that he's also occupied with a very tight schedule, so I appreciate that a great deal. Mr. Speaker, the attention that I've given Mr. Barletta, I hope that you and America have given Lou Barletta as well. And I hope that he's rewarded, not only by his constituents, but by a policy of protection of the rule of law that can be re-established here in this country. The idea that we should somehow suspend our good judgment, and we should waive the rule of law, all for some idea of political expediency, is not compatible with the principles of our political party. And sacrificing the rule of law for political expediency seems, to me, to be a foolish idea. It needs to be precious to be an American citizen. Citizenship should be valuable. And throughout all of the years that people have come into the United States legally--and the distinction between legal and illegal has been conflated by the open-borders crowd, both Republicans and Democrats. But you'll watch, Mr. Speaker, how they conflate the language. A few years ago they started blending the term ``health care'' and ``health insurance'' till it became one thing, and we got ObamaCare out of that, because people could no longer draw the distinction between health care and health insurance.…”