97 Quotes by Luis Gutierrez

That is unfair, it is unwise, it is undemocratic, it is un-American to do such a thing, to impose,

They want nothing other than that, and to remain together.

I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and [Barack] Obama had the key to light, he says, "I have a bill that will bring sunlight," they'd rather live in darkness than have him bring the light.

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

I think the real, fundamental problem that the Republicans have is, 'How do we get meaner, how do we get nastier with immigrants, so that we can take a smaller group,' now apparently led by Senator Cruz - I mean, maybe he's gonna be the next Speaker of the House. Because it's quite clear that Mr. Boehner has no control over this conference.

So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

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.