Top 132 Quotes & Sayings by Michael McCaul - Page 3

Traditionally, you support your nominee for president, and so when I went to Cleveland, I gave a strong speech about Hillary Clinton and her devastating foreign policy, but also in the support of the nominee. I think that's an obligation that we have to support the nominee.

I think, in Washington, getting things for the great people of Texas done is an important job.

Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.

People just didn't write songs that were so directly emotional in those days. They still don't. Part of Hank's [Williams] thing was that he was opening up about relationships between men and women in ways that nobody else did, and I think that's something that made him stand out so much. His songs are just so straightforward about these really deep feelings that are universal, but they're so hard to write about without sounding sappy or over the top. You think of men in that era - they didn't express themselves that way.

I believe the previous administration shrunk from some of our responsibilities as a superpower and made the world a more dangerous place.

This is what democracy is all about. People have every right to protest whoever's in the White House, without fear of persecution. If this happened in Iran, people would be shot on the streets. This is the United States of America, and we have a First Amendment that protects this kind of speech.

We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With the executive order out there, with the urgency of the threat, I think it's very likely that we'll get something passed, later this year.

We're seeing the sort of liberal phenomenon of activists that are speaking out. And they have every right to do so. I think we need to respect that in this country. It's just part of the democratic process.

Any employer is going to look at your social media before they hire you. Why aren't we doing that when we screen people coming into the United States?

We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border.

You can't just put the military in the streets of the United States rounding up illegal aliens. I think that would be a violation of federal law.

Peacekeeping funds are an important and necessary part of what America does for humanity and the rest of the world.