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I don't want to do something crazy. I voted against every regulatory effort in this area for 30 years. But the American people are agitated about this. And there better be some restraint shown, or the consequences are not going to be…

John Doe should be treated the same, in general, as John Warner.

I think the president understands that this is a different situation than the president was in when his numbers were at 56 percent and 60 percent just not too long ago.

But, you know, maybe the Senate will come up with a magic formula here that we don't anticipate them coming up with.

I have my differences with the president, but he is absolutely right. He understands history.

I have my differences with the president, but he's absolutely right. He understands history. He's a border state governor, and he knows you can't do this by itself.

We need to tighten up a number of things from enforcement to actually the how we handle the amnesty portion of the bill and how we do future immigrations.

I think it would be a big mistake for him as a matter of principle out of some fanciful idea that he could not support a lawful system and appeal for votes.

We passed an amnesty and made a promise in the future that we would have enforcement, and it never came.

Now, are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with al Qaeda? If that's the case, we've really failed in any kind of a war on terror.

I think there's serious problems with this nominee.

Federal dollars are still needed because Alaska is so huge and connecting those communities costs a fortune.

Well, that would be nice if we could increase the production of oil. You've got to remember, oil production is declining. Even though the price is going up, the amount we're producing is going down.

I think every state that gets more than what they send to Washington in the form of taxes should only get their fair share.

We don't need trash from Canada. Canada should take care of their own bloody trash. It's that simple.

It is not amnesty because the undocumented aliens will have to pay a fine. They will have to pay back taxes. They will undergo a thorough background investigation. They will have to learn English. They will have to work for six years.

The fact that we had a very aggressive program, try to keep up with what these people were doing, yes, I think this could be -- wind up being a winner and instead of a loser like some people might suspect.

This program that he runs that the president authorized disregards the law that was passed by the Congress, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. What kind of a message is it if we simply confirm him without him backing off on that?