Political Quotes

“I would, and I thank the great gentleman from Texas. I agree with him on the position he is taking, America first versus this America last agenda. I am from Pennsylvania. People say, ``Well, what do you care? You are a long way from the border.'' And I will tell you another great Pennsylvanian is now running for governor, Lou Barletta. He was just a small-town mayor in Pennsylvania coal country, as far away from the border as you would have thought, but he realized just over the course of a couple years his tax base stayed the same, Chip, stayed exactly the same, but his population in his little town doubled. And the crime in his town doubled. He could no longer afford the police budget. When a gentleman, one of the residents, confronted a person who was a member of the Latin Kings and said, ``Stop trying to sell drugs to my children,'' and that man pulled out--the gentleman, not the gentleman, the cartel member, illegal foreign national, illegal alien pulled out his gun and shot that man right in the head right there in the street. And that started this movement that illegal immigration--it shouldn't even be called that. Immigration is legal. It is not illegal. It is not immigration. This illegal crossing into our country, it is cultural piracy. It is piracy of our country, of our economy, of our safety. A lot of attention was drawn in the little town of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, because of Mayor Lou.…”