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

Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

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

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

I love comedy. It's where my heart is.

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

I opened the door and Lend smiled. 'They look better on you.' 'Wow, they must look just awful on you then.' I smiled back.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.