Tom Tancredo Quotes

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Tom Tancredo

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 20, 1945

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

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Hillary Clinton cannot run away from her own record of incompetence or from the Obama record of abject betrayal.

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Welcome to the brave new world of American multiculturalism. From a nation of diverse peoples united by a common culture, we have become a people divided by a common malady.

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Tolerance of true diversity on university campuses - diversity of opinion and belief - has been eroding for decades while alumni and trustees looked the other way.

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Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on good law and rejecting bad law.

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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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It is neither racist nor elitist to say publicly what every rational person believes privately - that if you don't know anything about a subject, you ought not to raise your hand or cast a ballot on the matter.

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Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'

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If you think data about illegal alien crime is hidden from public, just try to find information on the contagious diseases brought across our borders by illegal aliens from nearly 100 countries.

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

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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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Anger is an emotion, not a compass.

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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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Our own civilization has lost its way, and this makes us even more vulnerable to Islamist nihilism.

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If voters' anger is the hallmark of the 2016 campaign, nothing has generated that anger as much as the establishment's decade-long duplicity on immigration.

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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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The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

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

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

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If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem.

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