As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed.

There's a lot of overconfidence about this bill. We're going to expose it. It will not pass.

Donald Trump can improve and get better as he goes along, and I think he will.

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.

I just want you to know that as a southerner, who actually saw discrimination and have no doubt it existed in a systematic and powerful and negative way to the people - great millions of people in the South, particularly, of America - I know that was wrong. I know we need to do better.

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

I think the leaders in all parties tend to adjust to reality. They just have to or they won't remain in office.