Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Richardson

Driver's licenses & scholarships for illegals; not amnesty.

What he has consistently told the president, for several years now, is that if we do have some sort of guest worker program, it shouldn't smell, taste or look like an amnesty program.

Bobby Jindal

I'm not for amnesty. I've never been for amnesty, will never be for amnesty.

Ric Keller

After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.

Ted Cruz

If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe.

Militant kingpins will not be arrested as the process of granting general amnesty to militants is underway.

Chris Morris

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.

We thought we'd have more support than we did. Basically, they didn't want to have anything to do with us. They gave us no support, they gave our families no support, and it was hard for our families, not knowing who to turn to. So it was basically our lawyers and people like Amnesty that gave support to our families and helped them get through it.

Low interest rates have served as a sort of amnesty for graduates with debt. We haven't seen what the real impact is of much higher levels of borrowing.

Tom Tancredo

Many of the Mexican officials have talked about this Matricula card openly and stated that it was their way of getting around the Amnesty problem.

Conor Oberst

I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States who has not committed a violent crime, with a special emphasis on keeping families together.

Mark McKinnon

Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers.

Summer Sanders

Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Jan Brewer

And the bottom line is, is that they are illegal aliens entering our country. And we simply cannot sustain that kind of activity. Bottom line is it's a backdoor to amnesty and I don't believe the American people support that.

Jan Brewer

You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.

Robbie Williams

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

Glenn Greenwald

The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And yet the idea of amnesty for a whistleblower is considered radical and extreme.

Aaron Dobson

Medical amnesty is a good thing. They should always be thinking how to make the code better.

One of the things we're looking to see is what happens with the amnesty and who gets let go. It's a unique year.

But the U.S. Record, as assessed by independent organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, is reprehensible.

If Amnesty has concerns about torture then they will know better than a minister in Whitehall what is really going on, and we should listen to their concerns.

Aeschines

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

Lamar S. Smith

The fact that the administration is even considering giving what amounts to an amnesty to a half-million people in the United States is incredible.

Andy Warhol

Money has a certain kind of amnesty.

Halloween is approaching, and this is amnesty in a costume.

Brian Bilbray

What we don't do is give amnesty and reward people for breaking the law.

Give your kids an amnesty day. Tell them you want to see everything they write and all the pictures they post and promise that you won't get mad or punish them for it.

Erin Gruwell

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

Frank Wolf

If there's amnesty leading to citizenship, I'm going to vote against it again.

Karen Hughes

The President is opposed to amnesty because he thinks it would encourage further illegal immigration and reward those who broke the law.

Peter Benenson

It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters.

James Lankford

The recent, single-year influx of unaccompanied minors from foreign countries into the United States is a direct result of President Obama's policies of encouraging amnesty and failing to enforce existing immigration laws.

We will continue to push until we have full amnesty for immigrants.