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Mitch McConnell
@mitchmcconnell· Republican · KY· Jun 6, 2007

This is no small matter. It's a big issue, a big problem. And it requires broad bipartisan cooperation to bring a bill like this to conclusion.

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Edward M. Kennedy
@edwardmkennedy· Jun 6, 2007

It's a jungle on that border, a jungle on that border. And, every day we have -- we continue without this legislation, we have these well-trained, well-disciplined, highly motivated border guards out there chasing people across the desert…

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Trent Lott
@trentlott· Jun 6, 2007

Do we have the courage, tenacity and the ability to get anything done anymore? If we can't do this, we ought to vote to dissolve the Congress and go home and wait for the next election.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jun 6, 2007

As of tonight, the presidential candidate has amassed more than $36 million for her campaign.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jun 6, 2007

I am very grateful that I had a grounding in faith that gave me the courage and the strength to do what I thought was right regardless of what the world thought.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jun 6, 2007

She's the most famous woman in the world, and nobody really knows very much about her.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jun 6, 2007

I grew up in a middle class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

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Harry Reid
@harryreid· Democratic · NV· Jun 6, 2007

This bill is something that the country needs. And the Senate needs to do this. I hope that we can figure out a way to do it.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 5, 2007

And nothing really changes except the news coverage quiets down and Anderson Cooper is on to something else.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jun 5, 2007

And what it allows is people who have come here illegally to stay here for the rest of their lives.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jun 5, 2007

What Senator Clinton doesn't understand, that presidents don't lose wars; political parties don't lose wars. Nations lose wars.

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