John Conyers actually said...

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, . . . No Nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

"I appreciate the fact that the ball is now in our court here in the House."

"We want a path. And at the same time we need to combat the people that would illegally come in, the drug smugglers, the weapons traffickers, and all."

"At the Judiciary Committee's first hearing in this Congress, we discussed opportunities for legal immigration as well as enforcement of the law against undocumented immigrants."