Tom Tancredo Quotes

• The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

  Tom Tancredo

  Party, Important, Immigration

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be given a ballot in a different language, does that not mean that one is also most likely unable to understand the debate that occurred prior to the decision one makes to vote?

  Tom Tancredo

  Mean, Decision, Doe

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• To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

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  Destiny, Borders, Able

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• The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

  Tom Tancredo

  Punishment, Want, Deportation

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Look, my friends, if I'm a racist, this doesn't mean that I hate brown people

  Tom Tancredo

  Hate, Mean, People

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• The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people we admit) and immigrant policy (how we treat people who are already here). What our nation needs is a pro-immigrant policy of low immigration. A pro-immigrant policy of low immigration can reconcile America's traditional welcome for newcomers with the troubling consequences of today's mass immigration. It would enable us to be faithful and wise stewards of America's interests while also showing immigrants the respect they deserve as future Americans.

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  Wise, Two, America

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• Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.

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  Immigration, United States, World

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them.

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  Country, Cheer, Heart

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.

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  Borders, Facts, Terrorist

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

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  Country, Southern, Borders

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

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  Law, People, Politics

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• The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.

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  Years, Issues, United States

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

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  Believe, Fighting, Civilization

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.

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  Agreement, Support, Agree

  The Republicans' first presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif., www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country.

  Tom Tancredo

  Country, Moving, America

  "GOP Rep. Calls Miami 'Third World Country'". www.cbsnews.com. November 30, 2006.

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• We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

  Tom Tancredo

  Borders

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• People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.

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  White, People, House

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 05, 2010.

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• You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

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  Talking, Government, Interest

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

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  Country, Sacrifice, Unique

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.

  Tom Tancredo

  Conservative, Republican, Knows

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

  Tom Tancredo

  Democracy, Dictatorship, Implants

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It’s in Afghanistan, it’s in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it’s in the United States.

  Tom Tancredo

  Easter, Fighting, Numbers

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 2012.

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• Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

  Tom Tancredo

  Islam, Century, Radical

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