I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

Our timing is right... The election results are still fresh in the minds of my Republican colleagues and they don't want to go through this again.

We are dealing with the question of the 11 million people paying their taxes, having a path to legalization and, then, ultimately, to citizenship. Tough issues but we are coming together and I think we can do it.

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

God is not a franchise of the Republican Party.

If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America.

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings.