I have never known anyone that enjoys their job more than Mayor Riley.

So being able to meet payroll, where the Federal Government comes in with loans that will change the quality of life, to me seems to be a major change that is necessary.

if we don't learn something from this Gulf spill and fix it, that is unacceptable.

There is no constitutional right to get on an airplane without being screened.

Nobody in their right mind would expect a marine to read someone caught on the battlefield their rights.

I believe my right to own a gun should not be infringed because some nut is going to take a gun and use it wrongfully.

There's a disconnect here between what we're saying in reality. The watch list, when you look at the numbers, has so many problems with it that I think is not appropriate to go down the road that we're going, because a constitutional right…

We are at war, and we have to realize the profile of the enemy, and you do not want to focus on law-abiding American Muslim males who are serving in the military unjustifiably.

I want to keep that charge available to our government.

I do not think banning handguns makes me safer, because every criminal who wants a gun seems to be able to get one.

It is my belief that the Supreme Court would allow the Congress to write a law that said the homeland is part of the battlefield.

I want us to take our Social Security cards and make them biometric.

The idea that America has gaps in her defenses is really a timely topic.

Once we get there, comprehensive reform should come up, will come up, and I believe we can do it by 2012 if we are smart.

I would bet everything I own that the answer is this 2007 bill will not pass.

And I would say to what Senator Sessions said, all of us kind of look the other way as long as the labor needs are being met.

It is impossible for me and any other serious Democrat to get this body to move forward until we prove to the American people we can secure our borders.

For anybody who is watching this issue who wants relief in the Hispanic community, you deserve it.

The point of the matter is that there are two problems in America: an unsecured southern border and a visa system that is completely broken.

Do we have 60 votes to bring up comprehensive immigration reform between now and November?

I think 70 percent of Americans are in the camp that illegal immigrants need to be fairly and firmly dealt with, and fairly and firmly does not mean mass arrests.

I do not think it is. I think since the last effort to solve immigration, the border security has deteriorated.

But I bet you everything I own, if you bring it up in this environment, not having done anything that is going to reassure the American public that we will not have 20 million more, that you are going to crash and burn.

Let us get this environment corrected on border security, move forward in a comprehensive fashion, secure the border, protect America, and be fair to the 12 million people.

We're all living in fear of what China might do.