Pete Gallego

“My family never took vacations; we never traveled together. We never did anything. My spring breaks were going home to help my dad at the restaurant.”

“Our voting records are not necessarily the same, but, you know, we're all Texans, and at the end of the day, we try to help each other out.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Here's the thing about Texas - and the thing about the border. We all know undocumented immigrants. They sit in our churches, are friends with our children, and work all around us. They are just like us.”

“In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID. We don't have a national ID.”

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

“It was in the best interests of Zavala and other counties that we move forward with a farm bill and provide certainty to ranchers, farmers, food banks, and other providers.”

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

“It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.”

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

“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.”

“The men and women at our borders, given adequate resources, are doing an excellent job of keeping us safe.”

“As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.”

“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.”

“I told the president 'no' to special treatment for Congress when he tried to exempt them from Obamacare.”

“We have a two-party system that I think can work well if people make an effort.”

“One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the general rule. And the general rule has been, people are going to invite you into the church, but they are not going to make you a deacon.”

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

“Turnout is good for the system.”