Henry Bonilla Quotations

In the next four years, President Bush will continue to keep America safe, our enemies on the run, and our economic progress moving forward. Texas is the home of our President, and we will make sure that is true for another four years.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception.

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

Well, I think when you come here and wave a Mexican flag in our face in a country that's giving a lot of these people an opportunity that they've never had before, I think a lot of Americans are insulted, whether they're first-, second-, third-, fourth- or fifth-generation Americans.

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.

President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.

Regardless of your political affiliation, most people agree that Ronald Reagan was an American icon. He was a president of national significance and for that reason he deserves an honor in the nation's capital.

You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security.

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

But again, to dealing with border security, is an issue that - it's like having a fire in the back of your house that you need to put out first before you talk about who, who you're going to let in the front door.

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican.

If they try to do it for private commercial purposes, they lose all their money. You lose it across the board if you try to take property for free enterprise purposes and not through the traditional eminent domain purposes.

I look forward to following up with this project every step of the way. This new port of entry will contribute to increased economic development for El Paso County and all of Texas.

He's bloodied. He might be wounded. But he is going to get up, strap it on and take these things head on. He is by no means cowering. He is more passionate about standing tall than I've ever seen him.

It gives you a routine. I just need to get outs, whether it's the first or ninth inning.

We are tired of it. We are going to make this a front-burner issue until we see some results,

We have been working on this issue for two years and have seen very little progress,

We saw what happened when he pulled a shenanigan like this against Kay Hutchison years ago. At the 11th hour, he just stood up and said, 'It's a bogus indictment.

It would give communities a good knock on the head and make them take note.

A lot of us want to support a guest-worker plan down the road, but first and foremost, we have to secure the border.

They are presenting an immediate danger to the lives of people in every Texas community and beyond. We strongly urge you to take action now.

This outrageous action is crippling border security in Texas, ... We demand that these agents be returned to Texas immediately.

Congressman Bonilla just feels it's something that has been in the works for a long time, and we are consistently trying to work on the situation down there. We obviously are not trying to take away attention from Hurricane Rita,

I'm excited to be on a team on the way to introducing him to the entire country. We in Texas know that you'll be every bit as impressed with him as we are.

By subjecting all projects to penalties, we are removing a loophole that localities can exploit by playing a 'shell game' with projects.