We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONEvery time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we’re a nation of immigrants and all of that.
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Now it’s just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, ‘What are you doing for your country?’ you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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There is no “slippery slope” toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
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There are three days that are really slow for restaurants – Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
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I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.
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So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses.
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There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now.
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Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands.
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It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
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Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we’re a nation of immigrants and all of that.
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If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
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Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.
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The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.
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Here is what she said, ‘I believe the truth is that we have no strong causal link between IRCA and discrimination.
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