How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane.

our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.

There are whole states where people [with addiction or mental health issues] can't get to a doctor. If that were true of pancreatic cancer, if that were true of heart disease, if that were true of diabetes, we'd all understand that it made no sense at all. And yet we somehow approach mental health from a very different standard.

You serve the country, and you help the President. If the President wants you to leave, you know, you are two corridors down.

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families, and expel them.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.