I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.

I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.

I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and Obama had the key to light, he says, "I have a bill that will bring sunlight," they'd rather live in darkness than have him bring the light.

We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter. I want to end it...But let me say, conversely, I am as committed as any Republican to ending illegal immigration as we know it...They want to end it. So do I.