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

I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area.

Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

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