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

- Luis Gutierrez

It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

- Luis Gutierrez

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.

- Luis Gutierrez

I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter. I want to end it...But…

- Luis Gutierrez

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system an…

- Luis Gutierrez

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.

- Luis Gutierrez

I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.

- Luis Gutierrez

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to…

- Luis Gutierrez

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay…

- Luis Gutierrez