Ted Poe: “I thank the gentlelady. They were led by a 27-year-old individual from South Carolina by way of Alabama. He said at the…”

“I thank the gentlelady. They were led by a 27-year-old individual from South Carolina by way of Alabama. He said at the Alamo, ``I shall never surrender or retreat,'' and they did not surrender or retreat because war was hard then, and it cost them all their lives. But victory was obtained later, and freedom was obtained. War is hard. It is always hard. And we shall not give in. We shall not surrender or retreat. It is in our interest and in the interest of America to defeat the enemy and let them have no doubt in their minds that we will be victorious. And that's just the way it is.”