Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for making the contrast. Here is what else it is more than: It is actually almost more than Russia's annual military spending. The United States alone, the United States taxpayer alone, is spending more in Ukraine to fight the Russians than Russia's total military budget--not just in Ukraine, their entire military budget. Yet, the budget that we are spending money on, on our border isn't meant to keep our country safe, our national security interest--it is not just national security. My good friend, the gentleman from Texas, lives right down there. He can tell you horror story after horror story about the unsafe conditions that his constituents, his bosses, have to live under every day because this little book, the Constitution of the United States, says that immigration and the border is the job of the Federal Government. But what do you do? What do you do when they don't do the job? What do you do when 53 humans are cooked in a truck in your town? I will tell you. I had lunch at a little diner on my way to Washington, D.C., this week. Good people, hardworking people--you can see the same people probably every day in that diner. I sat down. They are talking about the world's problems, talking about their own problems. They looked at me, complaining, and said: What does it matter? We can't do anything about it. I said: What do you mean you can't do anything about it? What are you asking me for?…”