Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Florida for hosting this Special Order and continuing to elevate this issue and keep talking about it. The last time that we were speaking on this floor about the crisis on our southern border with Mexico, our colleagues on the other side of the aisle were still denying there was a crisis, if you remember. In report after report--if you watched CNN, MSNBC, et cetera--they said it was a manufactured crisis, manufactured by Donald Trump. To their credit, they finally agreed that there is a crisis. I just thought, well, such is the state of the Democrats on the other side of the aisle. But mere acceptance of reality counts for progress around here. But we have got to be thankful that we are at least having a conversation sometime. But you would think, with this crisis on our border--5,000 people a day coming illegally. That doesn't count the ones coming at points of entry. Those are in between the points of entry. And that also doesn't count the ones that weren't caught, right? Those are the ones we caught. Usually, Border Patrol says you can times two whatever we caught because others are getting through. You would think that we would be working around the clock here to fix this crisis at the border since we all now agree that there is a crisis. But, instead, my good friends on the other side of the aisle are focused on smearing the President.…”