These demonstrations were clearly designed to intimidate and to prevent a simple count of votes from going forward, ... This is a time to honor the rule of law, not surrender to the rule of the mob.

As long as I count the votes, what are YOU going to do about it?

We ran aground on the question of Jim Sensenbrenner wanting to prevent states from issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens, ... There was just about unanimous rejection of that. When the president called Jim Sensenbrenner, it was my impression that he was going to ask him to hold that until next year. But Jim Sensenbrenner came back with [more] proposals.

I'll count the votes and see 22 , and (Morgan) will claim it was 27.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

Obviously some of the votes that he might wish he hadn't cast that I've heard about surprise me because they don't represent American mainstream values,