“If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.”

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.

…for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it’s men who must be liberated in this country.

I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.

The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other …Fairness treats everbody the same.

Things which matter cost money, and we’ve got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

When do any of us ever do enough?

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.