A robust democracy requires active participation.

When the law says you're entitled to an attorney, it doesn't mean you're entitled to an attorney who sleeps or an attorney who doesn't do his job.

Sequestration will make it extremely challenging -- and in many cases impossible -- for employees to meet their mortgage payments, pay their healthcare expenses, plan for retirement, or help their children attend college. To be blunt, these families are at risk.

Our challenge is to stop people from driving drunk. Punishing them afterwards doesn't bring back the victim or make the family feel better. The idea is to stop the DWI before it happens.

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

I think it becomes incumbent upon a candidate to essentially disavow some of the things that are in that party platform. Otherwise, I think the assumption is that you are a true believer.

If immigration reform doesn't happen, that doesn't say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn't pass it.

I don't have the luxury of just hanging out in my primary and, once I win the primary, I'm fine. I have to talk to Democrats and Republicans.

My grandmother was not a U.S. citizen. Growing up along the border, you see the real human side of immigration -- not the picture often drawn by politicians far removed from the border.

Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.

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

We must work for a solution to address the senseless cuts that hurt our border, our economy, and our country.

How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?

You want to empower people who think like you do.

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

Around here, manana seems to be the busiest day of the week. We never seem to get there.

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

Frankly, no issue is worth shutting down the government and denying pay to those committed to public service.

It takes a certain personality to thrive as a member of the House.

It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even thinking about building walls.