Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them. (Tom Tancredo)
A guest worker program would be an open invitation to potential terrorists. They could enter the country legally, get a job, and use the program as cover. One of the terrorists who blew up the garage of the World Trade Center in 1993 did just that under an earlier program. (Tom Tancredo)
I don't trust FEMA any more than the agencies in the state of Louisiana. (Tom Tancredo)
The government of Mexico is a co-conspirator in the smuggling of immigrants. This is how we reward them, with helicopters and ways to tap phones . . . Somebody just has a lot more trust than they should have in Mexico's ability to be a good neighbor. (Tom Tancredo)
You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush. (Tom Tancredo)
We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships. (Tom Tancredo)
Many of the Mexican officials have talked about this Matricula card openly and stated that it was their way of getting around the Amnesty problem. (Tom Tancredo)
You should never ever, ever reward people for breaking the law. (Tom Tancredo)
The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation. (Tom Tancredo)
They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country. (Tom Tancredo)
You will find people by the millions, frankly, will return to their countries of origin, ... If they do not have a job and do not have access to social-service benefits, there really aren't any option. (Tom Tancredo)
You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it. (Tom Tancredo)
The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support. (Tom Tancredo)
Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law. (Tom Tancredo)
There is a sense that there's blood in the water and when that happens around here, the piranhas come rushing, (Tom Tancredo)