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.
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONIt says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
More Alan Kooi Simpson Quotes
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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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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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They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.
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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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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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He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
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