Tom Tancredo

People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama.

Now, we may think that there is no such thing as voter fraud. The fact is that unfortunately there's an enormous amount of voter fraud.

I have to ask you a question, and the question is, how are you going to convince America that you have, in fact, changed your mind on the issues immigration from when you were governor?

If illegal immigration is not stopped, terrorists could slip over the border and strike.

Look at the attack on our own culture that is occurring as a result of massive immigration, illegal immigration in particular.

This is the kind of situation where somebody like me, somebody who does not have hundreds of millions of dollars of personal wealth, can still make a difference, because you can still get to every little cafe.

In fact, this is not a unique situation, unique to the extent that the House has not acted before in a criminal case of this nature, but in fact, the House has acted in the past to intervene in cases where we have determined that the…

At the present time, it is not. But if we pass this amendment, it would be, yes. There has to be some sort of penalty assessed to the law that is already on the books or, of course, it is of no value. That is why so many cities have…

Any first responder money, any of the money we are talking about here in San Francisco, is currently appropriated in violation of the law, actually, and what this would do is establish that fact.

No. The question was am I aware of any violations of the law, and the answer is yes, many violations of the law.

The issue is not whether DHS funding is used in contravention. It is whether or not there is any penalty to be assessed to enforce the law that is on the books. Naturally there has been no suit brought or whatever because there is no…

We are testing our willingness to actually hold on to something called the English language, something that is the glue that is supposed to hold us together as a nation.

What we're doing here in this immigration battle is testing our willingness to actually hold together as a nation or split apart into a lot of balkanized pieces.

After 30 years in politics, I have no talent that has not been exploited.

I think that this crisis is not only an economic crisis. I think that it threatens the very idea of America. There are -- the great tradition of the melting pot in America, it's not working. The melting pot is cracked.

If this happens in the United States and we determined that it is the result of extremist fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites.

My complaint here and concern is with the Iraqi government today. The fact is, we should use this as pressure to get them to accept back their people who have committed crimes when they're here.

I don't care what they've done in Iraq before. There is a law, actually on the books today, Anderson, that says that if a country refuses to take back its aliens that have committed crimes in the United States, we should not give them any…

Accepting refugees would be a colossal mistake, and would very likely violate U.S. law.

I would be in favor of accepting those that can be actually identified as coming here under humanitarian conditions and as refugees.

I do not see Mr. Andrews, who was coauthor. Therefore, I will simply say that I would hope that we invalidate these nonsensical guidelines, allow our government to communicate directly with Taiwan's democratically elected government the…

I appreciate the chairman's attention to this issue. It is an extremely critical one in my area.

The problem with the multiculturalism is it tells them they shouldn't. They should not assimilate into America.

What if in 50 years the history books write that Tom Tancredo was the man standing at the gates depriving liberty for people who just wanted to come to the United States and make a better wage?