Barbara Jordan Quotes

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• For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
• Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that…
• The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as…
• The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend…
• Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are…
• ...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
• ...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal immigration. Immigrants come…
• [It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
• I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here…
• One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
• We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not…
• I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened…
• I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting…
• Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all:…
• Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
• We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
• I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot…
• All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and…
• I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.
• I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there…

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