"This is a matter not of Democrats and Republicans, left and right, but of right and wrong, and I encourage this Subcommittee and my colleagues in the Senate to embrace Ola Kaso and young Americans lik..."
"Ola, thank you. You were speaking for thousands just like you all across America, and you were very effective."
"The DREAM Act would be a burden but, rather, an opportunity."
"U.S. Congressmen should not be harboring and giving a podium to people who knowingly and willfully violate our laws."
"I do not think that you should give a podium to people who are in our country illegally."
"Children pay the penalty for their parents' misdeeds. If a parent does not pay the mortgage and the house gets foreclosed, sometimes the children suffer."
"We think they are worth keeping in America."
"I just do not buy your premise on that."
"Even the State of Texas has decided that these students will be given in-State tuition."
"Sometimes it takes us a long time to get to the right conclusion and to reach fairness and justice."
"I am discouraged that after 10 years this law has not passed, but I am not so discouraged as to give up the effort."
"Our day will come. This dream will come true."