Political Quotes

“I was not as surprised as he was at the remarks of the Senator from Colorado about this effort to bring legal immigration into the illegal immigration bill. As I said in my earlier comments, and as I think the remarks of the Senator from Colorado also reflect, this is a very substantial joining together of two very, very, in my judgment, different issues that ought to be dealt with independently of each other, as we were able to do so in the Judiciary Committee, and as the House did in their consideration of immigration already this year. The fact of the matter is that these issues that pertain to the number of legal immigrants who can come into this country are very complicated, significant, and weighty issues. Mr. President, I say to you that anybody who has been watching the discussions today, who has been following this debate, I hope they recognize already what we recognized on the Judiciary Committee, that these are not simple amendments. These are not amendments that should be considered in the flash of the day here. These are, in fact, deserving of being independently considered in a much broader context that looks at the whole range of matters that pertain to legal immigration at the same time.”