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 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.
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I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
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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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And in [my] view it is just as likely that the discrimination we found has always been there, or that it is spurious, as that IRCA has caused it.’
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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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Nonetheless, GAO’s conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO’s own Chief of Methodology, who criticized the GAO report.
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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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If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
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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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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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It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
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People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal.
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Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.
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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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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
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He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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