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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We are surrounded by evil forces in our daily lives. We must be wise enough to recognize them. Strong enough to resist them and resolute enough to destroy them.

Wealth does not consist of having a lot of money or possessions, but to be content with little needs.

Life is nothing but a transient dream dancing at the tip of a leaf called time.

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.