Political Quotes

“Thank you very much. We are eager to engage in conversation with each other. It is the belief of the members of the Judiciary Committee--at least the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee--that the President has enough current authority to provide what Secretary Johnson is asking. I too have heard what Secretary Johnson has. So there is a dispute about whether he needs more authority or whether the President can exercise the authority he has. We believe he already has enough authority. Then there are two large issues. The two large issues are: immigration reform, commonsense, sensible, along the lines that passed the Senate--Senator McCain of Arizona and others have worked on this, Senator Durbin--and then the other is what is going on in Central America with these drug traffickers. Quite frankly, the fact is we need to start to pay attention to our own hemisphere. I note that when everybody talks about how much money this is, it is less money than we are going to spend to give to the Afghan security force. OK. We give $4 billion to the Afghan security force. Let's hope they are going to use it and shoot in the right direction. I am looking at making sure our country goes in the right direction, and I am going to work on a bipartisan basis. I say pass this bill.…”