Will Adams Quotes (29 Quotes)

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

People in Kansas, very conservative people, tend to be on our side on this.

No one wants to withhold relief funding for survivors of Katrina, ... the red flag to show there's something wrong going on here.

We help people change their minds.

That creates a problem because the question is why would people leave if you have such leniency, and how do you track exactly how long they've been here

With the which request the emperor was not well pleased, and would not let me go any more for my country, but to bide in his land.

There's a huge chasm between us and big business. They're addicted to cheap labor, which illegal aliens provide. It's in their interests to keep the border porous and to keep the labor flowing.

Mr. Blunt played an extremely important part in getting through the most important immigration reform bill Congress has seen in a decade.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

This section does not make any substantial changes in current law. Cardinal Mahoney is protesting a monster that does not exist. It is already illegal to assist someone in staying in the United States illegally, but I'm not aware that any churches have been shut down.

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.

I told him if he would permit me to depart, I would be a means that both the English and Hollanders should come and traffic there.

The House will not accept an amnesty program and is unlikely to go along with a guest worker program.

He looks at this as a historic opportunity - handed to Congress by God - to actually reduce the size of government. Anything is open (for cuts).

In the end, the emperor gave every man, much as was worth eleven or twelve ducats a year, namely, myself, the captain, and mariners all alike.

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

In conclusion he asked me whether I were desirous to go to the ship to see my countrymen. I answered very gladly, the which he bade me do.

You can't write checks now and ask questions later. . . . This isn't Monopoly money but real money that taxpayers paid to the government, and they deserve accountability.

Forty-one days being expired, the emperor caused me to be brought before him again, demanding of me many questions more, which were too long to write.

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Through that theory, there is every incentive to go back. The 10,000-foot view is it would be very difficult to be illegal and be here.

The letter was respectful. We asked if he (Ensign) was with us on no amnesty. If he is, just say so.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

That's exactly who I'm talking about. If the president wanted to enforce the border today, he could do so. He doesn't need legislation.

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.