the loss that you have experienced is unacceptable if for no other reason that it was entirely preventable

I would have expected him to do that here.

the status quo is not working, and since the Administration is not going to apparently do anything about that, Congress has to step in and act.

I agree with Ms. Vaughan that that is all it is, that it is just a good first step and that we certainly have to do more.

the Texans that I represent certainly are frustrated with what they see as an ever-expanding government that invades so many aspects of their lives.

But that one--we can try and minimize that, but the fact is that one would be one violation of law.

I don't want in any way to be shifting away the emphasis from Islamic terrorism, which is real.

It is a fiction to say that we are not enforcing the law.

There comes a point when something amounts to a wholesale abandonment to enforce a duly enacted constitutional law that is beyond simple prosecutorial discretion.

I don't think that he has acted constitutionally.

During the Cold War years, the threat of nuclear annihilation was universally recognized.