Virgil Goode Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Virgil Goode:
The Bush administration as well as Mexico and Canada have persons in the government in all three countries who want to a see a North American Union as well as a highway system that would bring goods into the west coast of Mexico and transport them up through Mexico into the United States and then in onto Canada.
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I do not love immigration. I think immigration has been harmful to the United States. I think it's brought more persons more dependent on the government into this country.
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I am vigorously opposed to the Mexican trucks coming into the country. The way we have done it and, I think, the way we should do it in the future, is to have the goods come into the United States from Mexico within a 20-mile commercial space and unloaded from Mexican trucks into U.S. trucks.
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I just wish that more people would be welcoming to dogs and cats so they didn't have so many that got killed and had to be thrown in a landfill.
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We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.
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Success is measured differently by different people.
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If I'm fortunate enough to get the nomination of the Constitution Party, I will take as many votes from Obama as I would from the Republican nominee.
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If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue.
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Government cannot ensure equal results because every individual differs.
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We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.
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What we have are - some of the big political donors behind the super PACs are big on promoting more of these trade agreements which cost us jobs - another reason that we need to end political action committees and have only individual donations with their donations being disclosed completely with names and addresses and other information.
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When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way.
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It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
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I wish more people would take a stand and stand up for the principles on which this country was founded.
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You shouldn't have political action committees.
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You won't hear the leadership in the Republican Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.
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We have indeed been fortunate in this country. Over the last 200 some odd years since our Nation was founded, rarely have there been attacks upon our homeland.
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The establishment will do all they can to block him, so grassroots America's going to have to turn out in droves for Mr. Trump.
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The anchor baby situation has got to stop.
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I don't want to have one currency for all North America.
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As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.
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I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.
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You've just got to be honest and straightforward.
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It's time for grassroots citizens to have a president that's focused on them rather than the super PACs.
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We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.
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Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing.
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The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.
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You can't keep bringing people in from other countries, finding them jobs when Americans need jobs first.
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I can tell you, if I'm elected president, it won't be on the Koran, and it won't be on the Book of Mormon.
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I support our country being our country.
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The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.
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All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.
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In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.
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Printed media and other media indicated that Mr. Ellison was going to use the Koran, and that generated scores and hundreds of emails to my office. And so I thought it very important to state my view. And my view is that I don't subscribe to the Koran, and I will now be using the Bible when I take the oath.
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We can have more jobs in small businesses if 'Obamacare' is eliminated.
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It's a very distinct difference between Romney and Obama and myself.
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A lot of disgruntled Democrats that don't like Obama - old-line Democrats, some of them even conservative - will never vote for a Republican ticket, but they will vote for me as an independent.
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We really don't have much of a choice between Obama and Romney. Neither one of them are for Medicare or taking the steps that's needed for jobs in America.
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It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.
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We shouldn't bring in foreign workers to do jobs that belong to U.S. citizens.
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It's time we had a president who stood up for American workers first.
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We can stay in Afghanistan and the Middle East forever, and it won't make a difference.
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The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.
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In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.
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If you are in this country illegally, stealing a job from an American citizen, I'm going to do all I can to put an American citizen in that job and not somebody that has crossed our border, come into the country and violated our laws.
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The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.
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Send Iran a clear message that if we are assaulted, we will meet it and trump it.
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For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.
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Trump has the courage to stand up to Wall Street, to the K Street lobbyists, and say our trade deals have not been best for the ordinary, average citizen American.
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A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, 'As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, the Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.'
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The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
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Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.
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One: balance the budget now, not later. Two: Get Americans jobs by ending illegal immigration and making legal immigration harder. Lastly: Impose term limits.
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Seniors are concerned about Medicare and Social Security. I advocated in Congress a separate and distinct lockbox fund for Social Security.
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I talk to a lot of those voters who say, 'Just give us another choice.'
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I'm for making sure Americans get jobs before other people do, and I'm not going to let jobs get outsourced overseas, like Romney let happen.
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I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.
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Both Obama and Romney are just rolling in PAC money. Plus, they have the super PAC's behind them. They've got multi-millionaires and billionaires just buying 30-second ads. It gives each of them tremendous exposure.
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That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.
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Some really large businesses that get a lot from China would like a NAFTA Superhighway system because it would reduce costs for them to transport containers from China and, as a result, increase their margins.
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Every company that comes into the office for appropriations, the first thing I ask is how many jobs are you going to bring to the 5th District that are not already there.
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The average citizen saw that the big PACs with the billionaires and the multimillionaires get what they want in Washington, but the average citizen is left behind.
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I think most people have a general idea of the Constitution, and somewhat of the Bill of Rights.
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Romney says he loves immigration.
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We need to preserve jobs in America for American citizens first, and none of the other presidential candidates are - are addressing this issue. It's not politically correct, but it is one thing we could do right away to have jobs in America for American citizens first.
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However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy.
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The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district, and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.
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The voters of each Congressional district select the representative that they choose to represent them, and perhaps voters in all districts will now ask prospective candidates whether they will use the Bible, the Koran, or anything else.
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Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars with hydrogen.
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In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.
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In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.
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I think citizenship should count for something... and it really counts for nothing.
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I say if you are here illegally and are displaying and waving the Mexican flag, you should go back to Mexico and fly that flag there.
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I'm a conservative, but with a focus on average people. For instance, I support Social Security and Medicare.
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I still believe to some degree that Iraq had WMD.
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The difference between Obama and Romney is the difference between tweedledum and tweedledee.
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We should do what Obama and Romney won't do: Concentrate on Americans.
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I'm for a balanced budget now.
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There's a huge cost that comes with illegal immigration.
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Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.
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The Founding Fathers had just four Cabinet departments and the postmaster general.
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Obama gave temporary amnesty to well over 1 million illegal immigrants, and Romney said nothing.
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Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.
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