Joss Whedon Quotes

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

I don't think I'll ever meet the perfect woman. I might have to get me one of them mail order women. You can do that: you send away to the Philippines, and they send you a wife. The only thing is, once you're on their mailing list, they keep sending you a relative a month whether you want it or not.

I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.

I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.

Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.

I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.

Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.

We need to be talking about things like the DREAM Act. We need to also be talking about e-verify. We also need to be talking about border security.

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

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

Anybody that says I don't have any experience in immigration cases doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.

Certainly there are many Congress members who have been arrested in the past on immigration issues and will continue to because we all understand that staying silent is not an option.

First and foremost, immigration is important to me. I think immigration has implications for everything else that is done. So securing the border, that would be priority one for me. That is, to me, most important.

One simple rule: no amnesty, no special pathway to citizenship.

I was an illegal immigrant.

Let me tell you who the immigration system in America does not serve. It does not serve you the American people.

We want people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country legally and properly vetted, and in a manner that serves the national interest.

I think that [John Kelly] will bring law and order. And what I'm hoping for with this is that the restoration of the rule of law, especially with regard to immigration, that is the main principle that needs to be driven by the secretary of homeland security.

Maybe you’ve invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

I think people have good ideas on this. Clearly, we need to secure the border. Coming here legally needs to be a lot easier than coming here illegally.

It's hard enough to be in a marriage, and then have a kid, then kids, it changes everything. For me, I'd become more concerned with my children. Not that I ignored Britney, but my kids are always most important . . . I mean, we were having complications. I didn't give her an ultimatum, but I was trying to work stuff out with her, and she didn't even talk to me or anything and went behind my back and filed [for divorce]. [I was] completely blindsided.

You can be deported back to Canada, absolutely, for a shockingly minor infraction. Little bar fight. Next thing you know you are back in Sascatchuan. Which I'm not from, thank God... But it did concern me.

In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.

We must not lose sight of the fundamental issue of policy which is that people who come to the country on visa status must never be abused.

We have to take people that are here illegally, and we have to move them out. And you know what? It's going to be done.