Bob Goodlatte quotes

“A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers - not punish them ... And for this reason I support replacing the H-2A program and implementing new policies that will bring our illegal agricultural workers out of the shadows, as a first step in the process of overhauling our nation's immigration system.”
-- Bob Goodlatte

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“People have a pathway to citizenship right now- It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship.”
-- Bob Goodlatte

Source : "Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan" by David Welna, www.npr.org. February 21, 2013.

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“But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.”
-- Bob Goodlatte

Source : "Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan". "Morning Edition" with David Welna, www.wfdd.org. February 21, 2013.

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“Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.”
-- Bob Goodlatte

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“The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.”
-- Bob Goodlatte

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“If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.”
-- Bob Goodlatte

Source : "Food Stamps: House Republicans Push For Deeper Cuts To SNAP" By Arthur Delaney, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

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“If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.”
-- Bob Goodlatte

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“The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.”
-- Bob Goodlatte

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“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”

Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989

“All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.”

Source : Arthur Edward Waite (2003). “Devil-Worship in France: With Diana Vaughn and the Question of Modern Palladism”, p.219, Weiser Books

“Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.”

Source : A.V. Dicey, J.W.F. Allison (2013). “The Law of the Constitution”, p.230, Oxford University Press

“The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.”

Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.

“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”

“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”

“I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.”

“The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'”

“Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.”

Source : Cats (1934) p. 20

“Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.”