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 SIMPSONHe’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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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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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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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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It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
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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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In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.
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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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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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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 think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.
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If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
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People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal.
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He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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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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