We need entitlement reform that serves old people, poor people, does not savage old people or poor people, but, frankly, saves these programs for our kids.

As I have said to you before, in terms of Secretary Clinton, who I have served with, have great respect for, the person that I will support for President, if he announces, is the Vice President.

others are voting with their feet to try to create a situation where people like the President are arrested and put where they belong--in jail.

What lessons are there for us today from Plan Colombia?

We have a moral obligation to...put ourselves in their shoes.

I think there is some money in the appropriations bill in the Senate that would, I think, fund--maybe not $1 billion, but maybe $600 million.

Loved doing it. It was an honor.

I wrote to our colleagues on the Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this year urging them to fund the President's request for 55 new immigration judge teams.

Thank you, and I want to thank the folks on our Committee and, frankly, a lot of my colleagues and people around the country who have expressed just personal feelings about what those of us who were riding that train last night from…

I think we need comprehensive immigration reform.

The Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador must take the lead on this--and they are.

if folks who are citizens of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador who want to come to this country to work for a limited period of time and be able to go home, maybe we ought to change our immigration laws so that can happen.

If you are young and not liberal, you do not have a heart. If you are old and not conservative, you do not have a brain.

These included public information campaigns on the dangers of the journey, expedited court hearings, an increased focus on human smuggling and trafficking rings.

somebody is going to kill you or your family, that is pretty good intimidation.

Unless there is real serious buy-in from the political elite in the country, very little of this will have any success.

Many observers warned that as long as the Northern Triangle countries remained mired in violence and poverty, migration would continue.

I wonder if that is sort of a comprehensive approach. It sounds to me like it is intended to be.