Quotes About Legislation

I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.

I don't think it's good for economy to have a broken immigration system.

I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.

I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.

Every two years for Congress, four years for President, illegal immigration comes out as a political issue.

Dealing with immigration should originate in Congress. The president should not act unilaterally.

I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

Arizona really has been a trailblazer in discouraging illegal immigration.

Florida doesn't need an immigration law.

Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.

Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.

Government is essentially immoral.

Resources and money can change people's lives today, where legislation can take years - up to 10, 15 years sometimes before it really, really impacts people.

If people dying as a consequence of the implementation of measures cannot count as evidence that the legislation has detrimental effects, what would?

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

We will see if the situation with the Affordable Care Act ever rights itself or is improved upon.

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

Criminalizing behavior, if it's part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea.

Senators, in the end, must be elected.