Political Quotes

“I am afraid we are going to almost finish the rest of that hour. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, we should debate ideas; but if the idea is, ``What is your plan?'' it wasn't my plan that we had to do it alone. If we have to, we have proven we have done that before. He knows it will go on to the Senate. But if my friend has changed his belief, I don't hold it against him. He might have changed his belief. Or maybe his belief always was that we should have no border security. I don't know. My friend did acknowledge that there was a great number of people who were trying to get into our country and storming the gates. That is not all the bill. The bill is border security and homeland security. If the idea is it has to just be a CR or they can't deal with it, do you know what my plan has been all along? It is to work with the gentleman. But I am not hearing that he is even willing to work with us, that I am saying I am willing to. Compromise. He has already voted for part of border security to be a wall. He doesn't even want to sit down and discuss how much should that be, how much border security should we have. Is 10 terrorists a day coming across the border okay with the gentleman? Because it is not with me. Is 2,000 inadmissible people coming across? Is that okay with the gentleman? It is not with me. It takes away from those, like our own relatives, who come here legally. I was at a naturalization just a few months ago. I sat there inside this service.…”