Amnesty Quotes

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.

We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.

Donald Trump also will repeal all these executive amnesty orders that President Obama has put into place.

I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

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

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states which use the death penalty is twice that of states which do not, according to FBI statistics.

Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration. There will be no amnesty.

In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

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

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

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.

Donald Trump wants to make it clear to the American people that, while Hillary Clinton is committed to open borders, and amnesty, and executive amnesty, and more of the same that has really harmed our economy, and, frankly, as he said, with regard to dangerous individuals in this country, has cost American lives. . . .

We already have immigration law, and it is being violated. Obama's executive amnesty is not the settled law. [Barak ] Obama's executive amnesty is outside the law, and that's why it's been stayed.

It is a lie that to talk to Hispanics you have to talk about amnesty. Let me tell you, the only Hispanics that are in favor of amnesty are the illegals.

Money has a certain kind of amnesty.

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

One of the things was to create a kind of amnesty environment.

This is a guy [Donald Trump] who has been very consistent on no amnesty, no legalization, for folks who have been coming to the country illegally.

Anybody that brings up amnesty in this Congress, we need to just take the scarlet 'A' for amnesty and pin it on them.

3 "amnesty" didn't mean rewarding illegal behavior.

Unprecedented amnesty in history of Georgia took place

If you want to find a way to keep illegal immigrants, you know where they are, you give them a driver's license. It helps with - they all get insured, it helps with traffic safety. I believe education is the key. Yeah, I was for kids of illegal immigrants, if they fulfill the same academic requirements as New Mexico kids, to be eligible for a scholarship. I believe we have to bring the 12 million undocumented workers out of the shadows, set up a standard where they speak English, if they pass background checks, pay back taxes, obey the laws, embrace American values, give them a chance, a path to citizenship, not amnesty.

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

Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget.

[Donald Trump] has said that very consistently [about border], the contrast with Hillary Clinton, who supports amnesty, open borders, who wants to implement executive amnesty again on day one, even though the Supreme Court of the United States rejected it, and Hillary Clinton, who wants to increase refugees from the terrorist-torn country of Syria by 550 percent.

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

[Hillary] Clinton has also pledged to add a third executive amnesty.

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.

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

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.

Hillary Clinton has pledged to keep both of these illegal amnesty programs, including the 2014 amnesty which has been blocked by the United States Supreme Court. Great.

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

Donald Trump's against amnesty and I'm against amnesty, not that anybody should care what a consultant thinks.

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.