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.
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONLet 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.
More Alan Kooi Simpson Quotes
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It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
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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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The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.
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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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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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I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans.
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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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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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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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There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now.
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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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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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Grandchildren now don’t write a thank you for the Christmas presents.
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There are three days that are really slow for restaurants – Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
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And I have come to realize that “gay” is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman’s on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals.
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