"It's a national security crisis. It's unacceptable."
"Isn't it we're creating perverse incentives for people to come here illegally?"
"It's unfortunate that we're starting to incentivize the lawlessness in our country."
"I think Speaker McCarthy need to go, to the Ethics Committee, make his case. And the other side should have an ability to defend themselves. We always have presumption of innocence and the rule of law..."
"You are to have values. If you believe in this constitutional republic, if you believe the law governs, and we don't have kings and queens that we don't have top-down approaches, then you have to stic..."
"I think it's important decision. But it's another situation, and where we have to decide, what is our strategy, really, is, because a death by thousand cuts is really going to cost a lot of lives, and..."
"It's the same like we have a long discussions, what we're going to do with artillery, and what kind of things we can do, to deter further aggressions, and make sure that Russia understand that we're s..."
"I think it's important for us to have this conversation because I think we do have a responsibility to elect the Speaker, but we have to talk to each other."
"I think there are a lot of good things happening as part of this job because we do not want to be a dictatorship."
"Legislative process should never be easy. Laws should never be easy."
"Well, I can tell you one thing, democracy is never easy. This process is hard. They're meant to be hard. But I would never take changes for anything else."
"If you live in a dictatorship, if you live under tyranny, you know, what it means to have freedoms and that's why Ukrainian people are now dying for freedoms, and don't want to go back to that."