Trey Gowdy

It undercuts the credibility of people who have legitimate claims when you demagogue it and you politicize it.

I look forward in 2014 to working with you, Mr. Chaffetz, and you, Mr. Chairman, and everybody on both sides of the aisle.

How can you be credibly fearful of returning to a country that you just voluntarily returned to?

Is there any chance it could be that we have figured out if you just utter this talismanic phrase, you are going to be better off?

let us make sure that if somebody really fears death that America is still a safe beacon for them to be here.

I hope--I would love to see a program that Luis Gutierrez and Jason Chaffetz and Zoe Lofgren and Louis Gohmert all agree is being done so well...

We ought to be able to agree that we don't want people gaming the system, and we don't want fraud.

the executive branch has prosecutorial discretion to decline.

the President can suspend election laws? No.

Well, he is not applying the ACA, and he is not applying immigration laws, and he is not applying marijuana laws, and he is not applying mandatory minimums. What is the difference with election laws?

If the President can fail to enforce immigration laws, can the President likewise fail to enforce election laws?

the President cannot refuse to apply or enforce a law for policy reasons.

I still believe that we are a shining light for the world.

the President can pardon just about anyone, not that he should.

Let's don't rewrite history and blame this Committee for what a Democrat-controlled Committee didn't lift a finger to do from 2008 to 2010.

Despite Congress reiterating its mandate for an exit system over the past 17 years, DHS has failed to execute the law.

Not only should we be concerned with who is entering the country, but just as importantly we need to know who is exiting.

The 9/11 Commission recommended the Department of Homeland Security, properly supported by Congress, should complete as quickly as possible a biometric entry-exit screening system.

They were greeted with barricades on the very first day.

You didn't wait 100 days to enforce the law, Mr. Jarvis, with veterans who wanted to see their monument.

You can't decide that we think the maximum for burglary should be life instead of 30 years, so we're going to sentence somebody to 40 years.

A President cannot unilaterally suspend a mandatory minimum.

If the President doesn't like Citizens United, Lois Lerner doesn't like Citizens United, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle doesn't like Citizens United, so they can advocate for its repeal and its legislative remedy and not…

I just find it stunning, I literally found that answer stunning, and it's hard to stun me...

The jury has not forgotten.