Henry Paulson Quotes

I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.

In reality, if Democrats truly cared about solutions to our immigration crisis they would have done so long ago - like in 2009, when they controlled the entire federal government and maintained a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

In the case of immigration, there has never been a majority for any of the proposals put forth by either party - executive amnesty or whatever other plan there is - to essentially legalize them and make them voters. There is not the majority support for any plan that either party has put forward. It is a gigantic issue.

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

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

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

Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.

Regardless of how one feels about immigration, it is necessary for Japan’s future and it is good for Japan’s future; our social-economic situation requires it.

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

Simply put, President Obama's immigration strategy is all about politics and getting credit rather than about families and people.

I was very heartened by Rupert Murdoch's passionate interest in immigration reform. He is an immigrant himself. He understands from a business perspective how important immigration reform would be to our economy.

I want very much to see some sort of compromise reached in the area of immigration... so that we could move on to other issues.

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.

UKIP talk a lot about immigration - but they don't have a serious plan for action.

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.

In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants.

The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.

Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform.

If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.

I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, where we've been actively working on concrete solutions to fix our nation's immigration policy, piece-by-piece.

If immigration reform doesn't happen, that doesn't say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn't pass it.

We need immigration reform, but we need open-air, smaller bills that are germane to an issue and have an open discussion with the American people.