The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.

I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)