Frank Sharry Quotations

There will be no bill passed without robust immigration enforcement.

There's a bipartisan majority in favor of reform, and there's a president who says he's willing to sign it. And if they cannot figure out how to get from here to there, shame on them.

That would mean President Bush would have to weigh in.

No matter what the administration witnesses say, it's going to be revealing. Everyone knows the only way that immigration reform happens is if the president leads on it. And if they come and mouth platitudes and stay vague, it'll be interpreted in both chambers as an abdication of his leadership role.

I think the ads are soft-peddling an extremist agenda. And what they're trying to do is draw people in with a soft pitch. But if you take a look at what their real agenda is, it is hard. It is ugly.

We all know that this issue is so volatile that anything can happen.

There's lots of signs of the growing drumbeat for reform. We think there is a bipartisan majority with presidential leadership that can actually get across the finish line this session.

Obviously, there's tremendous pressure on lawmakers to fix the problem.

Will it (the speech) change what's already scheduled to happen in Congress? Not one iota.

That's a very good sign for the tough votes on other issues.