The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.

Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.

We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.

Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.

The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.

The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.

In today's digital online world, those who don't share information will be isolated and left behind.

If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.

Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative. More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.

Dear Lord please show me what really matters so that I may be able to determine what is distraction and God's direction in my life.

If a man bites a dog that is news.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.

A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem to contain it. But I need the stupid things.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.