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 SIMPSONAn educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
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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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It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
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The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.
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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 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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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 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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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
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Grandchildren now don’t write a thank you for the Christmas presents.
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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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There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now.
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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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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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There are three days that are really slow for restaurants – Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
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