"I think it's important that the people in Congress are able to objectively look at the data that's out there, the real facts, and know that 80 to 90 percent of the illegal drugs that come into America come from or through Mexico."
"What I said is that, for every valedictorian, there are 100 for every valedictorian that are smuggling drugs into the United States."
"The law enforcement officers I have seen these drug smugglers. Law enforcement officers have described them to me as well."
"There is no putting the genie back in the bottle."
"We should not as a Congress stick our head in the sand because we feel some political pressure. We have to do the right and objective thing."
"We don't have a bill before us, ladies and gentlemen. And so we can't look at the language of a bill and take a position on that language."
"All of us have sympathy for children who are brought here without knowledge that they were breaking the law."
"For everyone that is a valedictorian there are another hundred out there who weigh 130 pounds and have calves the size of cantaloupes because they've been hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the des..."
"Would you characterize your life living here in the United States as living in the shadows?"
"And in that he said, and God made every Nation on Earth, and He decided when and where each Nation would be, and He granted that authority to the elected officials within the countries to set the bord..."
"As an evangelical Christian, I rely heavily on the teachings of the Bible to help me develop my thoughts about all aspects of life, my own and my Nation's."