"Our businesses depend on these workers. I mean, they depend on them."
"Part of the prosperity is try to get our GDP growth above 2 percent, and if our Federal bureaucracy is impeding that growth..."
"I mean, I am quoting from it: Workers who worked in the last 3 years shall not, again, be counted toward such limitation during fiscal year 2016."
"The intent of Congress seems clear."
"Thank you, and I appreciate your honesty. Look, we are talking about all the immigration things and Homeland Security."
"I just beg you, please, respect the intent of Congress here."
"And the estimates on returning is it could be up to 70, 80 percent of these applications are from people who are returning."
"This is a significant problem if you stop accepting applications or discourage applications because you haven't discounted the returning workers."
"Again, I understand safety is big, but prosperity should be big, too."
"I mean, that seems like it would be a waste of time for your agents."
"Do we have a safeguard to make sure that Iranians don't come here and literally gain access to what I believe is the best education in the world, technical education in the world, to go back and build..."
"I can't imagine the administration really thought Congress was going to say, 'You know what? Let me fall on my sword and raise taxes and fees in an election year.'"