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

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 youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.

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

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

I never wanted to be run of the mill.