"If I had additional personnel, I have got robbery issues, I have got auto theft issues, I have got a lot of other crimes that I think threaten public safety a lot more than going after someone who may have overstayed a visa."
"I do think there are potential ideas and solutions out there that I have, others have, and I think we can do it."
"I want to thank all four of our witnesses. I do not think we could have had four better witnesses to begin this, and from different perspectives each showed the need for immigration reform"
"I do not know of a police department in this country that has the ability to take on these types of investigations, which are time-consuming, which are crimes that we have never had to investigate bef..."
"I think the American people would accept a fair, reasonable path to citizenship for the illegal immigrants who are here."
"I think the time is right. I do."
"I am optimistic, using the formulations that we have talked about today, that we might--not for sure, and, boy, it is hard."
"I could not think of four better witnesses to start off our long goal, quest, to come up with a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year."
"Most Americans are pro-immigration but anti-illegal immigration."
"I think that it ultimately becomes the difficult--the most difficult continues to be a political issue, not a substantive policy issue."
"I think most Americans, at least the polling data I have seen and talking to people, their greatest fear is not this time's path to citizenship."