Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I always learn something when I hear from my friend, Professor Bishop. It has been staggering to hear the testimony over the last several years as to what has gone on at our border. We used to be a law-and- order country where the law meant something, but we've seen that eroded. I heard our Democratic friends, before Mr. Bishop spoke, speaking of selling our birthright, and I enjoyed hearing them talk about how we ought to use our energy in this country. Well, welcome to the Republican position. That was great to hear. That's just fabulous to hear from our Democratic friends because, as we know, and one of the things that Mr. Bishop pointed out, there have been regulations and government bureaucracies used to not only prevent us from enforcing our immigration laws, but also to prevent us from utilizing our own resources over and over and over. For heaven's sake, if somebody has got 800 safety violations like BP had, prohibit them from drilling, but don't prevent everybody from drilling. The things that the government should be allowing entities to do, like providing the energy that we have--we've got more energy than any country in the world. Relative to the size of other countries, we're not the biggest, but we have more natural resources than any other country in the world has been blessed with. It's amazing.…”