We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.

If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

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

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

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.

When do any of us ever do enough?

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