Illegal Quotes - Page 5

• House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

  John Boehner

  Strong, Ifs And, House

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2006.

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• However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

  Spencer Bachus

  Broken Heart, Years, Immigration

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• Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.

  Bill Hicks

  Marijuana, Drug

  "Salvation". Stand-up show, Live album, 2005.

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• Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand - will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.

  Arthur Kemp

  Russia, Europe, America

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• Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.

  M. K. Asante

  Flower, Reading, Thinking

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• Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.

  Michael Oppenheimer

  Hands, Mexican, Police

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• To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal.

  Kyril Bonfiglioli

  Feet, United States, Immoral

  Kyril Bonfiglioli (2004). “Don't Point that Thing at Me”, p.69, The Overlook Press

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• The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.

  David Hockney

  People, Choices, Drug

  "Interview: Jasper Gerard meets David Hockney". www.thetimes.co.uk. October 02, 2005.

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• I am speaking of something that is no longer happening - that is not currently going on. If someone is abusing you, or doing something illegal, or even something you refuse to tolerate, and it's still continuing, that is not an issue of forgiveness, that is an issue of making sure that stops - even if you have to get away from that situation - that's very important.

  Ysabella Brave

  Issues, Important, Get Away

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Forgiveness", www.youtube.com. July 07, 2007.

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• Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Illegal Activities, Intertwined, Activity

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Stupid, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up.

  Jay Leno

  Team, Independence, England

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• The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.

  Ofir Drori

  Powerful, Littles, Poverty

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• I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Trespassing, Knows

  Montgomery County, MD, Journal, February 16, 1988.

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• Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.

  Martin Scorsese

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  "Scorsese on Scorsese". Book editing by Ian Christie, David Thompson, 2003.

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• If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.

  Tom DeLay

  Jobs, Children, Years

  Tom DeLay's speech at the College Republican National Convention in Washington, DC, www.youtube.com. 2007.

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• I learned that the political is above the legal, that's why when my advisors tell me, Evo, what you are doing is illegal, I say, if it is illegal, then do it legal, you have studied for that".

  Evo Morales

  Political, Advisors, Ifs

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• The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

  Byron White

  Law, Issues, Long

  Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 1986.

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• The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

  Brock Yates

  Law, Nuts, Style

  Brock Yates (2003). “Cannonball!”, p.13, MotorBooks International

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• There's got to be a point where we fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show respect for people, a kid who might have been here for 10 years, that might be a valedictorian of their high school to say, no, no, no you're not allowed to go to college. I just think there's a point past which we are over the line.

  Jeb Bush

  School, Kids, Past

  "Megyn Kelly previews her exclusive interview with Jeb Bush". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2015.

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• Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

  Brock Yates

  Running, New York, Moon

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• And if this is illegal, then sue me!

  Fred Smoot

  Ifs

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• It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

  Murray Leinster

  Artist, Peanuts, Outrage

  "Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 21, 1964.

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• For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.Then you go to an anti-immigration website chat room and ask, "What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?"

  Moby

  Girlfriend, Wings, Pro Life

  "Punk the prez? Moby's anti-Bush tricks" by George Rush and Joanna Rush Molloy, New York Daily News, February 9, 2004.

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• The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved.

  Ilana Mercer

  Confused, Party, Games

  "We are the World". www.wnd.com. March 31, 2006.

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