Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman for yielding. In the time that we have had to debate one of the most sacred and deliberative responsibilities of the United States Congress--that is, impeachment proceedings--there has not been one iota of truth and/or facts that would suggest that Secretary Mayorkas is, in fact, guilty of the Articles of Impeachment against him: One, the willful violation of the law, and the benefit to himself from anything that he might have done or that he did not do. What it has done is given to this Nation, a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, the sense that you cannot flee Nazism, you cannot flee Cuba, and come to this country to serve your beloved adopted country for more than two decades, that you cannot be the Justice Department U.S. attorney, you cannot be a Deputy Secretary and now the Secretary of Homeland Security without those who find it strange to have you, with your diversity, to be able to lead in this way. This is a question of stunts over solutions, and the Constitution was created to create a more perfect order, and that is that, under that Constitution, precious rights fall under the Fifth Amendment and the 14th Amendment, due process. Let me say, Mr. Speaker, that this Secretary of Homeland Security was not allowed to bring his own witnesses. The majority did not allow the minority to have its day of witnesses.…”