“We need to make sure we have secure borders.”

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I’d rather achieve the savings.

Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.

The President Donald Trump has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.

I’m a lawmaker, but I really don’t like laws.

I want to see the economy rebound.

I didn’t go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count – the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn’t pass the Senate.

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.

Not every problem is solvable, okay.

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don’t exist all over Syria.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

Hezbollah fighters are on the borders with Lebanon where the terrorists attacked them. On the borders with Lebanon, this is where Hezbollah retaliated, and this is where we have cooperation, and that’s good.

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

Thank God we’re going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.