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• I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first 11 months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something, he may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever.

  Jay Leno

  Wall, Office, Trying

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• In a groundbreaking move, the Associated Press, the largest news-gathering organization in the World, will no longer use the term 'illegal immigrant'. They will now use the phrase 'undocumented democrat'.

  Jay Leno

  Moving, Organization, Phrases

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• It's a very strange thing when you make nature illegal.

  Joe Rogan

  Strange, Strange Things

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• Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.

  Preet Bharara

  May, Vantage Point, Insider Trading

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• We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.

  Preet Bharara

  Country, Successful, Risk

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• An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.

  Ami Ayalon

  Order, Fire, People

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• I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.

  Michael Pena

  Play, Half, Want

  "Michael Pena Interview THE LINCOLN LAWYER; Updates on TOWER HEIST and 30 MINUTES OR LESS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2011.

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• We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Past, Electronics

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• You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Men, Community, Given

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• The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.

  Steve King

  Country, Baby, Anchors

  "Steve King Introduces Bill To Stop ‘Anchor Babies’" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

  Ric Keller

  Southern, Immigration, Borders

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• Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.

  Kerry King

  Fun, Order, Leaving

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• Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

  Peter DeFazio

  Size, Harvest, Given

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• There's got to be a point where we fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show respect for people, a kid who might have been here for 10 years, that might be a valedictorian of their high school to say, no, no, no you're not allowed to go to college. I just think there's a point past which we are over the line.

  Jeb Bush

  School, Kids, Past

  "Megyn Kelly previews her exclusive interview with Jeb Bush". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2015.

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• The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Growth

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• I don't think marijuana should be illegal.

  Jon Stewart

  Marijuana, Thinking, Should

  "Carl Sagan, Marijuana Advocate, Explains What It’s Like To Be High While Carl Sagan" By Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2013.

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• An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. Thats 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.

  Russell Pearce

  Years, Citizens, Shooting

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• For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert (http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/steve-king-still-stands-by-cantaloupe-comments/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0).

  Michael C. Burgess

  Kings, Children, Marijuana

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• The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

  Achim Steiner

  Fishing, Veils, Secrecy

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• After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

  Alan Gottlieb

  Gun, Dust, Law

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• Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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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.

  Tom Tancredo

  Immigration, United States, World

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.

  Ariel Pink

  Racist

  "Ariel Pink" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2014.

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• They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million.

  David Letterman

  Country, Native American, Numbers

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• A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up.

  Jay Leno

  Team, Independence, England

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