What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman a peasant woman struggled all her life worked in the garment center.

Unfenced by law the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

Lord grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable trusted element in another person's life.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee learn English and learn about American history and government.

I love the new legal immigrants they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.