"I don't know what 'operational control' of the……" — John Cornyn
"I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control."
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32 Quotes by John Cornyn
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I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.
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I don't support an amnesty.(Cornyn) demands an ongoing focus on security and workplace enforcement before considering steps to grant legal…
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I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws…
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Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents
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When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally
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And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada…
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Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on…
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One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and…
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The spread of democracy, the new foundation of the rule of law, and the creation of fledgling representative governments that…
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I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name
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But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from…
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But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're…
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More Border Quotes
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It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that…
— William Bartram
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House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs,…
— John Boehner
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
— Tony Abbott
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Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people…
— Jan Brewer
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Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
— George W. Bush
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Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
— Jeb Bush
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on…
— Herman Cain
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The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right…
— Herman Cain
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
— Pablo Casals
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We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is…
— Paul Cellucci
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to…
— Eric Clapton
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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