Amnesty Quotes - Page 6

• We have had this happen in the past, right in Colombia: there were amnesties for everybody, guerrilla members were elected mayors, senators. Today there are senators who are - who were previously guerrillas.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Past, Today, Colombia

  "Transcript: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia interviewed on Al Punto". Interview with Felix De Bedout, www.univision.com. September 2016.

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• Donald Trump's laid out a plan to end illegal immigration once and for all in America. We've been talking it to death for 20 years. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine want to continue the policies of open borders, amnesty, catch and release, sanctuary cities, all the things that are driving wages down in this country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Talking, Years

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Hillary CLinton wants to expand illegal executive amnesty, which would be really - shred - it would shred our Constitution.

  Donald Trump

  Would Be, Want, Constitution

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Years, Drug

  Source: www.madre.org

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• In the case of immigration, there has never been a majority for any of the proposals put forth by either party - executive amnesty or whatever other plan there is - to essentially legalize them and make them voters. There is not the majority support for any plan that either party has put forward. It is a gigantic issue.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Issues, Support

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• We went 60 years or more with no immigration, folks. It can be done. The only reason that it started up again, Ted Kennedy started bellyaching about it in the mid-sixties, and then that led to Simpson-Mazzoli 20 years later, 1986, amnesty for about 3.9 million, and we were told that would be it, never again, and of course now we're where we are.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Years, Immigration, Would Be

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• Let's ask their parents. And will those children point to their parents and tell us you really need to enforce the law against my parents? Because they know what they were doing when they caused me to break the law. I don't think we've thought through this very well. But there's a reason why in the president's DACA programs he didn't grant his unconstitutional executive amnesty to the parents of dreamers.

  Steve King

  Children, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I worked 30 years to try to restore respect for the rule of law because of Ronald Reagan's amnesty in 1986. And I don't want to let this go because somebody's heart got a little softer than it was before the election.

  Steve King

  Heart, Years, Law

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You wouldn't know that if you talked to Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or some of the international activist organizations. Certainly you wouldn't know that if you were talking to some of the writers who criticize our drone policy. But I've actually told my staff it's probably good that they stay critical of this policy, even though I think right now we're doing the best that we can in a dangerous world with terrorists who would gladly blow up a school bus full of American kids if they could.

  Barack Obama

  School, Kids, Blow

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• From our side, from our part as government, we have two missions: the first one is to fight those terrorists to liberate that area [eastern part of Aleppo] and the civilians from those terrorists, and at the same time to try to find a solution to evacuate that area from those terrorists if they accept, let's say, what you call it reconciliation option, in which they either give up their armaments for amnesty, or they leave that area.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Giving Up, Fighting, Government

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• You want to trace California's move to the far left, you go back to the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Simpson-Mazzoli was where we granted amnesty to, at the time, what was three and a half million illegal aliens. And that's it. We were told that would be it. We would start being strict about guarding the borders and making sure that there wasn't any more illegal immigration, but that didn't happen. That was the design. Ted Kennedy, Simpson-Mazzoli, it was their idea here and it's worked out magnificently for them to this extent.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Ideas, California

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You will agree that the Duke Lacrosse team raped and damaged or whatever, even though it didn't happen. You will be made to agree. You will understand that there is going to be amnesty and you will love it and you will stop speaking out against it. And until you do, you are in our crosshairs. It's who they are. That is the modern-day Democrat Party, and certainly that is the attitude of their major donors.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Attitude, Team, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Hillary Clinton has pledged to keep both of these illegal amnesty programs - including the 2014 amnesty which has been blocked by the Supreme Court. Clinton has also pledged to add a third executive amnesty.

  Donald Trump

  America, United States, Add

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Arizona, www.politico.com. August 31, 2016.

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• Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Fighting, Years

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• I think an amnesty program... which is what the president (George W. Bush) has proposed... those are reasonable proposals.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, President, Proposal

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• Marco Rubio was fighting to grant amnesty and not to secure the border, I was fighting to secure the border. And this also goes to trust, listening on to campaign trails. Candidates all the time make promises. You know, Marco said," he learned that the American people didn't trust the federal government."

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Government, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online.

  Ted Cruz

  Law, Obamacare, People

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• Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Heart, Opening Up, Amnesty International

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.

  Ted Cruz

  Aliens, Citizenship, Illegal

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• I think there's something remarkable happening here that nobody is talking about. They're skirting the issue. For the longest time, the Republican Party has told us that they can't win with just Republican votes. And that's why they support amnesty. That's why they support the Democrats on many of their issues to go out and get Hispanics or other minorities.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Winning, Thinking

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• He has attempted to muddy the waters, but I think anyone that watched the battle that we had - you know, there was a time for choosing, as Ronald Reagan put it, where there was a battle over amnesty. And some chose, like Sen. Marco Rubio, to stand with Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer and support a massive amnesty plan.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Water, Support

  "GOP Presidential Candidates Clash Over Security Issues In 5th Debate". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 16, 2015.

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