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.
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONGrandchildren now don’t write a thank you for the Christmas presents.
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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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I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I’m an Alan Simpson Republican.
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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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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 has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now.
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If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
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We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.
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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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I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans.
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A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.
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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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The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.
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In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.
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Reagan didn’t put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.
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