Top 78 Quotes & Sayings by Luis Gutierrez - Page 2

The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides.

BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big.

The pro-life, pro-family Republicans are now pro-neonatal detention and deportation. It isn't enough to drive out the people not born here; now they want to drive out the ones that were.

I am a senior Democratic Member of Congress whose parents were born in Puerto Rico and for whom Puerto Rico self-determination has been - and remains - a central issue of my congressional career.

Appeasing Wall Street is to be expected from the GOP who do little to hide their true intentions and their defense of the wealthiest financial institutions and interests.

I think the real, fundamental problem that the Republicans have is, 'How do we get meaner, how do we get nastier with immigrants, so that we can take a smaller group,' now apparently led by Senator Cruz - I mean, maybe he's gonna be the next Speaker of the House. Because it's quite clear that Mr. Boehner has no control over this conference.

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.

I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.

I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter. I want to end it...But let me say, conversely, I am as committed as any Republican to ending illegal immigration as we know it...They want to end it. So do I.

I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and Obama had the key to light, he says, "I have a bill that will bring sunlight," they'd rather live in darkness than have him bring the light.

I have traveled to Florida, I have traveled to Georgia, I have traveled to California, you and I both know that there are millions of undocumented workers that work hard, sweat soil every day to put the food we eat on our table. That's not a myth, that's a reality. Why don't we let them come with visas to this country so that then we don't have people using that border.

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.