John Cornyn

The importance of providing both the financial support to border sheriffs and other law enforcement officials to help make up the burden.

These are people who know a lot about the border, and I am delighted they are here to share their expertise.

Mexican authorities have told us that a vast majority of weapons they seize from criminals in Mexico are actually smuggled from the United States.

My constituents of Texas view NAFTA as a net plus for many, many reasons, and it is important that we preserve the proper balance.

I want to thank all the witnesses for joining us here today, particularly three of my constituents from Texas.

Unfortunately, because of her speeches and other public statements where she said 'there's no such thing as objectivity in the law', which the opposite of objectivity is subjectivity.

I would just say if academics or legislators or anybody else who has got creative juices flowing from the invocation of foreign law, if they want to change the Constitution, my contention is the most appropriate way to do that is for the…

Judges are not policymakers and judges should leave that job to the elected representatives of the people who reserve the time-honored right to throw the rascals out if they don't like what we're doing as elected members of the legislative…

The test is really what kind of Justice will you be if confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States?

The test is not whether Judge Sonia Sotomayor is intelligent. You are.

Thank you for your answer. Judge, I actually agree that your judicial record strikes me as pretty much in the main stream of judicial decision making by District Court judges and by Court of Appeals judges on the Federal bench.

But, Judge, she said that a wise man and a wise woman would reach the same conclusion.

You will get that up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.

I am afraid that sometimes in the past these hearings have gotten so downright nasty and contentious that some people are dissuaded from willingness to serve, which I think is a great tragedy.

Your nomination should make us all feel good as Americans that people of humble origin can work hard.

Each Supreme Court nomination is a historic moment for our Nation.

The Framers created a written Constitution to make sure our constitutional rights were fixed and certain.

We are not final because we are infallible. We are infallible only because we are final.

The role of judges was intended to be modest—that is, self-restrained and limited.

It is a matter of finding skilled workers for jobs where we lack skilled workers, and we need to fix this system.

There is great interest, as I indicated in my opening remarks, about this subject across the board.

I agree that legal immigration is something that has made our country a better place. It has strengthened our economy.

No one--no one--benefits from the status quo with regard to our immigration situation.

It is unconscionable that the nearest acute inpatient care facility is almost 6 hours away.

Texas' two Republican U.S. senators, John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, also said they have made securing the border a priority.