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I believe we have to bring the 12 million undocumented workers out of the shadows, set up a standard where they speak English, if they pass background checks, pay back taxes, obey the laws, embrace American values, give them a chance, a path to citizenship, not amnesty.

Bill Richardson

You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.
BILL RICHARDSON

Paas Shut Things Two
We must never forget that it is the private sector – not government – that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.
BILL RICHARDSON

Government Jobs Opportunity
I don’t have all the answers. I need your help, your guidance, and your leadership to tackle the challenges before us.
BILL RICHARDSON

Answers Challenges Needs
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
BILL RICHARDSON

Enlightenment Ignorance Tyrant
“Novels and gardens,” she says. “I like to move from plot to plot.”
BILL RICHARDSON

Garden Moving Novel Plot
If you want to find a way to keep illegal immigrants, you know where they are, you give them a driver’s license. It helps with – they all get insured, it helps with traffic safety.
BILL RICHARDSON

Amnesty Drivers Safety Scholarship Traffic
The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.
BILL RICHARDSON

Country Last Strong Teacher Thing
Our theme is, ‘Respected abroad, strong at home.’ What do we mean by that? Basically that we want a strong emphasis on affordable health care and education, safer at home, positive themes. And respected abroad — a foreign policy with alliances.
BILL RICHARDSON

Home Mean Respected Strong Theme
I think what’s going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona – and I think it’s going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.
BILL RICHARDSON

Hurt Issues Thinking
Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business leaders.
BILL RICHARDSON

Cutting Income Mistake
I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what’s right for the people. I choose to make a difference.
BILL RICHARDSON

Courage Differences Inspirational
This launch will be a brilliant signal flare that will let the nation and the world know New Mexico’s spaceport is open for business.
BILL RICHARDSON

Business Country Education Good Spaceport
Recognizing and preventing men’s health problems is not just a man’s issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men’s health is truly a family issue.
BILL RICHARDSON

Daughter Issues Men Mother
Natural gas is the future. It is here.
BILL RICHARDSON

Future Gas Natural
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. It is education that allows us to see that we are in this for the long haul, and it is education that will give us the tools we need to build a better future.
BILL RICHARDSON

Giving Long People
I love the four-day weekend without having anything that particularly has to get done. And of course, I love the fundamental idea behind it-giving thanks for all the good people and good things in your life.
BILL RICHARDSON

Anything Fundamental Good Life People Thing Weekend

I believe we have to bring the 12 million undocumented workers out of the shadows, set up a standard where they speak English, if they pass background checks, pay back taxes, obey the laws, embrace American values, give them a chance, a path to citizenship, not amnesty.

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