Politician

We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.

Obama's very unpopular. I don't need a poll to tell me that.

I told the president 'no' to special treatment for Congress when he tried to exempt them from Obamacare.

I learned long ago you run unopposed, or you run scared.

No one will steal my son's American Dream.

I have never been in favor of gay marriage, and I am not in favor of gay marriage.

In the district I represent, I have to talk to everybody.

It was in the best interests of Zavala and other counties that we move forward with a farm bill and provide certainty to ranchers, farmers, food banks, and other providers.

I think 'immigration' is a bad word for many Republicans.

I'm confident in my strengths. I'm prepared to jump any hurdle.

In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID. We don't have a national ID.

This is pool. This is setting up your next shot, and I always want to make sure when we're setting up San Antonio's next shot we have a good shot at making sure that we continue to build our infrastructure in such a way that San Antonio will be a player for years to come in national defense issues.

There's this fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party, and until that fight gets settled - because they're the majority - there's a lot of things that are pretty much on hold.

One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the general rule. And the general rule has been, people are going to invite you into the church, but they are not going to make you a deacon.

In the old way of doing business, it was fine to disagree and then go to dinner. Now it's personal and more partisan, and a disagreement on one issue leads to a disagreement on another issue.

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.

The luxury for me is that I've spent already several millions of dollars across the district getting people to know who I am... So, my name ID is really, really high.

As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.

It's a lack of respect for the community when you're not willing to debate because it's the 'wrong' network.

I saw how hard my parents worked, and I didn't want to be a freeloader.