Political Quotes

“I am thinking about Mr. Roy's comments. We say the Republic can't exist if our colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to dismiss the calamity that is happening on the border, the human tragedy, because it is not a dismissal. It is a collaboration. It is part and parcel to aiding and abetting. It is part and parcel to being involved in and supporting the largest human trafficking operation in recorded history. That is what it is. If my friends on the other side of the aisle think that there is some political favor in knowing that they are doing nothing about 10-year- old boys and girls being trafficked into unimaginable circumstances, then I sure hope that God is with them because they are going to need something for their souls. That aside, look, I get the politics of it, but I, like my good friend and colleague from Texas, cannot help myself. I cannot help myself in thinking about the Founding Fathers who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor knowing that mankind, that men and women, were flawed, that they fell short of the grace of God, and that they knew that power was corrupting. They set up this system--for my good friends on the other side of the aisle--not as a democracy but a republic, a republic with competing interests to check the power of government, the power of the avarice of man and mankind so that the individual was preeminent. The Founders knew.…”