Political Quotes

“I am grateful for the comments that have been made by so many colleagues today in this colloquy and for the insights they have shared. Each comes from a different State, bringing a different set of perspectives to the table, a different set of political and professional perspectives that help them shed light on this important issue and provide insights and warnings about the rather grave implications that we so cavalierly overlooked today--``we,'' meaning the Senate as a whole, with 49 of us trying to stand in the way and raise a word of warning about what we are doing and what implications that might have for the future. The warning signs are everywhere. Tragically, we have seen, just in the last few days, with news breaking in recent hours, that the consequences of our open-borders policy can touch all of us, with one of our dear respected colleagues having lost a beloved staff member within the last few days, having lost that staff member as a consequence of the actions taken by an immigrant in this country who was here unlawfully, who shouldn't have been here. That is a troubling thing, but the human level has so many ramifications. There are so many thousands of families, so many hundreds of thousands, and, in fact, so many millions and, in fact, tens--depending on how you slice it, hundreds--of millions of Americans who have been impacted in real, meaningful ways by the open-borders policy that has been so prominently featured by these Articles of Impeachment.…”