At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

As far as an upper limit [on refugees] is concerned, my position is clear: I will not accept it.

The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He's a wonderful man. Remember the last scene? We have people that are being released into our country that we don't want in our country.

I can't tell you when the government's going to be open. I can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a wall or fence, whatever they'd like to call it.

I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.

Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?