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"We cannot give this lie a place to rest."
"The number of active hate groups in the United States topped 1,000 for the first time and the anti-Government movement has expanded dramatically for the second straight year."
"It's the American thing to do."
"The claim that prisons will generate scores of terrorists spilling out into the streets of our cities--the position described at the opening of this paper--seems to be false, or at least overstated."
"If prisons were a cause of jihad radicalization, even a weak cause, then the country would be rife with terrorists."
"Restricting this hearing for the consideration of radicalization of American Muslims and not equally of other groups is wrong."
"I vehemently oppose the narrow approach this committee is taking in this hearing."
"I think people would reasonably expect 6 months or a year after the emergency you come back."
"I think that is asking a bit much of Mr. Jones."
"I think that it is a real problem for us now to try to reach back 5 years-plus and ask people to produce records that we know they don't have."
"Some in Congress seem to believe that securing America's Southwest Border is the answer to our Nation's illegal immigration concerns."
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Bennie Gordon Thompson

in office

usa, Mississippi

2,660 Quotes

Born1/28/1948 (age 77)

PartyDemocratic

  • U.S. House of Representatives

    1/5/1993 - present
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