"This is going to take a discussion on both sides of the aisle because this has to go beyond 1 or 2 administrations."
"When things go wrong south of us, we feel it. We have to begin to take ownership not because we want to, but because it is in our own strategic interest to take care of business."
"We have 100,000 labor-certified, Department of Labor-certified positions that are unfilled right now that need workers..."
"Having children, unaccompanied children in harm's way is never something to be taken lightly."
"If we don't do something to address the root causes, it will continue for the next 20 or 30 years."
"We need a Marshall Plan. We need to stabilize Central America."
"I saw a young lady 14 years old that had gotten raped a number of times by a number of men on that trip."
"When are we going to start--what are the long-term solutions to this problem?"
"It breaks my heart to know that we are giving them the impossible job of fixing our societal problems of homelessness, drug addiction, and mental health."
"Are we winning the War on Drugs? No, we are not."
"Should we address drug addiction as a medical issue instead of a criminal issue? Absolutely, yes."
"One of the things I did the last few months was to visit our juvenile hall where I found that most of the young ladies in juvenile hall are there because of prostitution--prostitution related to tryin..."