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 SIMPSONIf 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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People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal.
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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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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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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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There are three days that are really slow for restaurants – Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
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It doesn’t matter is you call it ‘Obama-care’ or ‘Elvis Presley care’ or ‘I-don’t-care care.’ It cannot sustain itself in its present form.
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If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
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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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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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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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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
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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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