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The hand of God was in what we are today.

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.

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…

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I am my brother's keeper. I am my sister's keeper.

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

If the situation does not improve, we're going to need to see changes.

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

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

This is long and hard and tough. But I think we can succeed.