I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.
Tom HarkinThat signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.
Tom HarkinLet's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.
Tom HarkinThe President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
Tom HarkinThe planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an attack on the heart of America. And standing here in the heartland of America, we say in one voice We will not give in to terrorists; We will not rest until they are found and defeated; We will win this struggle not for glory, nor wealth, nor power, but for justice, for freedom, and for peace; So help us God.
Tom Harkin