"I think it's maybe not unique, but it might be unique in this Congress."
"the price for crime is paid not by the taxpayers across the board, on average, so that we all share in that, but it's paid in great, huge, whopping chunks from the victims of crimes themselves."
"The crime victims really don't have rights under the origin of the Old English common law."
"I would like us to take a good look at that token and find a better way to respect and honor the rights of the crime victims in a more objective approach."
"if the taxpayers that were funding then at $18,000 a year to incarcerate criminals actually had to pay the full amount of the damage due to crime, they would then incarcerate criminals--more of them a..."
"I would suggest one thing: We have, for the last 40 or 50 years, adopted the notion by piecemeal and by osmosis almost that mere birth on U.S. soil is enough."
"And I would say that if we had that same sentiment applied to the people who are locked up in our prisons, there wouldn't be anyone in our prisons."
"I believe all the evidence strongly supports that he's wrong about that."
"I don't think he has the constitutional authority to do that."
"I just make the point that the President is making up immigration laws as he goes."
"I presume, on DACA and DAPA and the Morton memos and these components that have put this country through this strife that we have, you have looked at those constitutionally."