This was a national security issue first and foremost. Ever since 9/11, it's a national security issue. People came to Fort Dix, New Jersey, from across our southern border and tried to kill our soldiers. For us to do nothing is silent and…

I think it would be a terrific mistake to even reopen the issue. It is working, my friends. The policy is working.

What he doesn't -- what Senator Clinton doesn't understand, that presidents don't lose wars. Political parties don't lose wars. Nations lose wars. And when nations lose, the -- have the consequences of failure.

This strategy needs to be given a chance to succeed.

This is a national security issue, first and foremost. Ever since 9/11, it's a national security issue.

This is wrong and hard and tough, but I think we can succeed and God bless you.

For us to do nothing is silent and de facto amnesty.

This war was very badly mismanaged for a long time. I believe we have a strategy which can succeed so that the sacrifice of your brother would not be in vain.

Pandering for votes on this issue while offering no solutions of the problem amounts to doing nothing, and doing nothing is silent amnesty.

We impose fines, fees and other requirements as punishment. And if the path to citizenship we offer them is special, it's because it's harder, longer and more expensive than the path offered to those immigrants who come here legally.

I'm not running to do the easy things, so I defend with no reservation our proposal to offer the people who harvest our crops, tend our gardens, work in our restaurants, care for our children and clean our homes a chance to be legal…

When you have only been in the Senate for two years, I guess you can vote against the troops.

Maybe I should wait a couple of weeks and see if it changes. Maybe his solution will be to get out his small varmint gun and drive off those Guatemalans off his lawn.

Maybe his solution will be to get out his small varmint gun and drive off those Guatemalans off his lawn.

And the need for us to do a much better and efficient job in our use of the taxpayers' dollars.

Maybe he can get out that gun of his and chase those Guatemalans off his lawn.

the battle over immigration reform heats up, and John McCain takes a shot at Mitt Romney.

... is not serving the president well. And, it seems to me, out of loyalty to the president, that he should resign.