Political Quotes

“on the issue of immigration, again, this administration wants to create the perception among the American people that Republicans do not care, that we are not sensitive, that we are not compassionate. And we have to rise up and we have to shout as loud as we can the facts, because that is not the case. What we are trying to do is to stop the abuse. I think the best case that I can point to of what is going haywire in this country was brought to my attention by a good friend and colleague from California, Elton Gallegly, who has been the leader in this Congress in terms of immigration. Elton Gallegly showed me a brochure, I think it was the last session of Congress, printed in Spanish, paid for by the U.S. taxpayers. This four-page brochure was being handed out in southern California to anyone who was Spanish speaking that needed health care. And what it said was that if you are pregnant, you can go to any hospital within the jurisdiction of the brochure being given out, I think it was Orange County, and you can get prenatal care, postnatal care, and have the cost of delivering your child borne by the taxpayers of this country. If you are a young Mexican mother and you know in a brochure printed in your native language that you can come across the border to America, where health care is the best in the world, and you can go to any hospital and have your prenatal care provided, your baby delivered and your postnatal care provided, what are you going to do?…”