"trust, but verify."
"To destroy people, you must first sever their roots."
"we have somebody in the White House who does not share the objective that most of us have of a strong U.S. presence"
"Your department was stood up when 19 foreign nationals misrepresented who they were and used our infrastructure and our resources to bring a catastrophic attack of course on September 11."
"The president has made the point that he can't secure the border... he has done everything he can to undermine the security of our border."
"We have had 100,000 people killed from Fentanyl."
"I really appreciate all the work that law enforcement officers do. The last thing I want to do is cut law enforcement support. Trust me."
"The hard part for us is that this is only because of budget limitations. No other reason. We just don't have the money."
"It would seem that people who are in our country illegally are under less scrutiny to use our air services than American citizens."
"If FEMA is involved, we must think it is a disaster of some sort of some sort of emergency."
"They are very frustrated that they have been taken off their job of protecting our borders and have instead been put in the role of processing."