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.’
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONIf you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
More Alan Kooi Simpson Quotes
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He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
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It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
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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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I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans.
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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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Grandchildren now don’t write a thank you for the Christmas presents.
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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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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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I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.
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