Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

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.

This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.