Political Quotes

“I thank the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee for yielding. I would like to pose a rhetorical question to the gentleman: Where is the wall? Where is the wall that has been talked about now for a decade-plus? I ask because others have had the same message, and here they come. Where is the wall? Our friends on the other side of the aisle seem to fill their legislative agenda with platitudes, promises, broken promises, and ``I am going to get it done.'' The American people don't need ``I am going to get it done.'' What the American people need is to ensure that we have added more Border Patrol officers, which we have done under the Biden administration's plans. We will be doing that for Customs and Border Patrol. We will be doing that under the Biden effort. In addition, we will be doing more training and more recruitment. We know that a wall, no matter how much you do, is always going to be overcome--not like the song, ``We Shall Overcome,'' when we do want to overcome in a better life and in a better world. This is just a lot of talk. Mr. Speaker, I came to say that here is another resolution. There is no action in this resolution. It is a lot of talk. As you remember, Mr. Speaker, how we got here was a bill that was so crushing that Republicans in the Senate could not vote for it, and that was H.R. 2. The resolution condemns many of the same policy choices on immigration, and they asked to be reversed in the last resolution. That is how bad it is.…”