Tom Tancredo quotes

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law. (Tom Tancredo)
We can control our borders, we just choose not too. View quote
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Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation. View quote
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We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships. View quote
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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. View quote
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The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Tom Tancredo)
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. View quote
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You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush. View quote
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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. View quote
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We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders. View quote
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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. View quote
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In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is not just for the security of Iraq and the freedom of Iraq. It is for the security of the entire Middle East and for the freedom of the entire Middle East.... We are creating an environment that is threatening to the rest of the fundamentalist regimes in the area. This is an honorable goal on our part, but it is worrisome to the extreme. We do not know what they will do, nor what they have to do it with. View quote
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Well, what if you said something like - if this happens in the United States, and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites. (Tom Tancredo)
This is our culture; fight for it. This is our flag; pick it up. This is our country; take it back. View quote
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[The War on Terror is] not a war we started, it's a war we must finish, and it's tough when your enemies are psychopaths and your allies are the French. View quote
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And by the way, there is some irony here, when we are told that we need these workers to support an aging society, yet, over the past three decades we have allowed over 40 million Americans to die in abortion clinics. Why have we turned our hearts on our own innocent babies and embraced the culture of death? We no longer even talk about the tragedy of abortion or its consequences on our mothers, our culture, or our land. Instead, of course, we are replacing- we are seeking to replace the missing with an imported servant class. View quote
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It is utterly hypocritical for Congress to extol the virtues of a color-blind society while officially sanctioning caucuses that are based solely on race and restrict their membership based on race. View quote
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