No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn't give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.

I think we could be at a tipping point

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.