I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.

Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.

So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

Prayer purifies the soul.

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.

We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it.

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

You can't really dust for vomit.

God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastlingly.

Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.