Quotes About Amnesty

Granting amnesty to those who willfully broke the law makes a mockery of our legal system and encourages even more lawlessness - potentially more severe crimes than entering the U.S. illegally.

I do believe that if you continually go through a cycle of amnesty, that you undermine the respect for the law and encourage more illegal immigration into America.

No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn't give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.

...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we've got to define what amnesty is in this country.

If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

Though the gospel amnesty which grace proclaims makes no exceptions, for Divine grace has no limits, there are limits to the time within which the amnesty avails. And if sinners despise grace there is nothing for them but judgment, stern and inexorable.

To remember no more is God's way of expressing absolute forgiveness.

I'm not in favor of any amnesty whatsoever.

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.

Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.

Forgotten is forgiven.

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.

Obama gave temporary amnesty to well over 1 million illegal immigrants, and Romney said nothing.

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, 'Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.'

Forgotten is forgiven.

Democrats in sanctuary states support amnesty for illegal aliens, just so long as those illegal aliens don't wind up in sanctuary states.

Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.

When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

Es posible que ello ocurra, pues es evidente que la corrupción también está en las propias filas de Morena, que la amnistía pensada para abatir la violencia es un espejismo, que la pobreza no se liquida si no hay desarrollo económico