What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

[He said that nobody likes the idea of people dying at the border,] but if the United States would gear up the political will to enforce its laws, it would actually be an act of compassion, ... The border is something the United States can certainly control. If we caught them, they wouldn't be losing their lives.