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 SIMPSONHere is what she said, ‘I believe the truth is that we have no strong causal link between IRCA and discrimination.
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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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Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Grandchildren now don’t write a thank you for the Christmas presents.
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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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If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
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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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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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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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