Let us work on comprehensive immigration reform.

We spend so much time, money, and energy focusing on symptoms of problems. We do not do a very good job drilling down on the underlying causes, the root causes of problems.

Those countries that are admitted into the program, are they required to regularly check Interpol's lost and stolen database?

It would be interesting to know how many instances of fraud have been found.

To us to undercut that program would be giving Putin maybe the best gift he could get from a propaganda standpoint.

If we are not keeping score, we are just practicing.

Thanks for your service to our country. Good to see you all.

The key to success has always been leadership.

As I understand it, there is around $500 million that actually is divided among the three countries.

They have very weak government systems, as you know, and we can help bolster them.

Certainly, it had good support here in the United States, but it was a Colombian plan developed with support from the United States.

about 40 percent of the people that are here illegally out of the 11 or 12 million that are here came here--they came here legally.

I want to dwell for a moment on what works and just throw out an idea that might be helpful for us.

Good. Do you see a role for--and then we will come to Mr. Franco--do you see a role, eventually, for the Inter-American Development Bank with respect to this pipeline coming in from Mexico, or is that something that there is just plenty of…

One of the best tools we have to keep the hearts and minds of the Central and Eastern Europeans oriented to the West and to the United States is the Visa Waiver Program.

At some point in time we have to ask the question, do these laws work? Are we solving the problem?

I believe we have a moral and fiscal obligation to help our neighbors in the Northern Triangle.

I did not create one of those jobs, but we certainly worked hard to create the nurturing environment.