First, we need a policy that is fair, one that will significantly reduce our Nation's budget deficit and one that will strengthen our economic recovery that is now underway.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph in the world is for enough good men and women to do nothing.

Blocking or repealing the Administration's initiatives would take us backward.

I hope that most of us can come together to do what I believe is the right thing, and that is support the passage of a clean 4-year appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security by February 27.

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.

It would have also reduced our budget deficits by--listen to this--nearly $200 billion over the next 10 years.

Good. Thanks. That is one outfit, we probably need to spend some time with them. I need to know more what their capabilities are.

I think we can do both at the same time, and the immigration reform bill that Senator McCain co-authored actually does both at the same time.

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

information sharing is very important.

Just for clarification, under the, I want to say, 2007 law signed by President Bush, does it differentiate the way we treat kids from these Central American countries as opposed to kids from Mexico in terms of what we do with them and the…

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

Well, that is actually kind of encouraging.

They wanted us to put them away for a long time.

But if you bring agencies together, understand their missions, and understand how we can bring those missions together to secure the border, we are in a much better situation.

I am a big supporter of your ongoing efforts to move our country's health care system away from volume-based toward value-based payment for care.

I would continue the information-sharing collaboration as we are doing now, implement technology to assist in that.

I was pleased to see the Administration's proposal to expand PACE to serve younger individuals with disabilities and other high-risk populations.

Have we lost our minds? I hope not.

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

The key to success has always been leadership.

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

I hope that is wrong. But, when you look back at the legislation about a year and a half ago, I can point out any number of things that I was not enthusiastic about, but I still believe that part of the solution for the issues that are…

it is important that they have been raised. Some of them have been addressed

We have a window of opportunity that he believes... leaders who are committed to providing their nations and their citizens the level of security and economic development that they deserve.