Kerry Kennedy Quotes

I believe immigration reform is a commitment of President Obama's government, especially since it gives him a chance to respond to the great demand expressed by U.S. Hispanic voters.

Senator Obama and I had been on the same side of many fights, and we had worked together on the issue that is most urgent to me - comprehensive immigration reform.

If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.

You can’ t be a national party in America and be perceived as an anti-immigration party.

As a Democrat from Illinois, as a member of Congress who believes in and admires President Obama, it genuinely pains me to say that the facts show that this president has done no more to solve our immigration crisis than George W. Bush.

Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform.

It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.

The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.

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

I'm not anti-immigration.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

We need the immigrants.

We must come up with new immigration laws to … show that we are a compassionate nation of immigrants.

I have traveled around Minnesota and addressed many issues, and immigration is one of those issues.