Quotes by Tom Tancredo

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Thomas Gerard is an American politician from Colorado, who represented the state's sixth congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009, as a Republican. He ran for President of the United States during the 2008 election, and was the Constitution Party's unsuccessful nominee for Governor of Colorado in 2010.
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We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

Tom Tancredo

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

Tom Tancredo

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

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

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

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

The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.

Tom Tancredo

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

Tom Tancredo

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

If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem.

Tom Tancredo

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

Tom Tancredo

You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.

Tom Tancredo

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

Tom Tancredo

This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart.

Tom Tancredo

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

Tom Tancredo

In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.

Tom Tancredo

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

Tom Tancredo

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

We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States.

Tom Tancredo

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Tom Tancredo

Author Bio

  • NameTom Tancredo
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • BornDecember 20, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician