The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.

Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.

We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.

Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.

The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.

In today's digital online world, those who don't share information will be isolated and left behind.

The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.

If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.

Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative. More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.