Luis Gutierrez

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

“The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.”

“We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.”

“Republicans will criticize whatever President Obama does because that is what they do.”

“The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.”