We are all here against illegal immigration. What we're for is legal immigration.

It would be almost humorous if the consequences weren't so bad. I have talked to so many people who have given up on our schools and here was Peebles, a person who maybe was abrasive but who obviously wasn't giving up. It doesn't matter what the board says. They either hired the right person and they didn't like what she was doing, or they hired the wrong person. Either way, the school board has failed.

I think the anger that I'm seeing right now in the Latino community is like nothing I've seen before in my 21 years I've been in Minnesota.

The sleeping giant has awoken. I don't think Minnesota has probably seen a march this big in quite a while.

As a result of negotiations over the weekend, yesterday and even today, we are at a point now that we have a deal that we could all live with.

We were a little nervous. By 10:30 a.m. people were lined up down the block. We're just trying to fit as many people as we can.