Illegal Quotes - Page 2

• If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Liberty, Would Be

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Illegal Things, Envy, Wish

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• Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.

  Timothy Murphy

  Country, Doors, Drug

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• All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Funny, Food, Illegal Things

  Quoted in Readers Digest, Dec. 1933

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• The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.

  Ric Keller

  Impact, Immigration, Economic

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• Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

  Jane Mayer

  Administration, Torture

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• People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Looks, Behave

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• Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

  Mark McGwire

  Use, Substance, Steroid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

  Tony Campolo

  Thinking, Abortion, Wade

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• In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

  Dave Reichert

  Drug, United States, Facts

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• Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Travel, Jobs, People

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• We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.

  Jim Bunning

  Drug, Use, Pay

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• I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

  Kevin Shelley

  High Standards, Inappropriate, Accepting

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• Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

  Ric Keller

  Encouragement, Common Sense, Behavior

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• Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Law, Immigration, Scams

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• We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

  Donald T. Regan

  Liberty, Done, Levels

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• When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.

  Allen West

  Simple, People, Immigration

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• American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

  Hanoi Hannah

  War, Fighting, Unjust

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• In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fear, War, Fire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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• In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

  Tom Clancy

  Photography, Looks, Unions

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

  Kenny Marchant

  Empowering, United States, Flags

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• No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?

  Elie Wiesel

  Beautiful, Skinny, Contradiction

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• There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Men, People

  "Teddy Roosevelt's Immigration Speech Holds True Today" by Barbara Wamboldt, www.thewhig.com. July 07, 2010.

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• Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

  Unknown

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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• In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Firsts, Facts

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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