“Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.” LittlesStatesFactsRunningLostBitsPresidentRepublicanOfficeLittle BitElectionRanServingSenateGovernorsCitizenshipPreparingRatingPiousBaloney Author:Newt Gingrich
“We can't wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship. Now, this is where I differ with everybody on the Republican side. Make no mistake, today, not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one. When they talk about legal status that is code for second-class status.” TodayWaitingSidesMistakeClassPathRepublicanEqualCodeCandidatesConsistentlyCitizenshipClass Status Author:Hillary Clinton
“In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government.” GovernmentFormPoliticalSexNaturalPrinciplesRightsFeetSubjectsCitizensHonorRepublicanFundamentalsInjusticePrivilegeCivil RightsGuiltyDoomedIgnoredCitizenshipForms Of GovernmentJudicialVerdictNatural RightsSubjectionYour HonorPolitical Rights Author:Susan B. Anthony
“The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.” WorldFirstsHumansIdeasSoulUseIndividualWishDestinyRightsCircumstancesRepublicanSolitudeJudgmentConscienceSafetyIndividualityOccasionsIslandsFacultyImaginarySolitaryWomens RightsCitizenshipFridayHuman SoulProtestantsDiscussingArbiterRobinson Crusoe Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Marco Rubio said he was personally open over a long period of time to offering a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. Rubio's work on a comprehensive immigration bill is one of his biggest vulnerabilities with Republican primary voters.” LongSaidPathPeriodsRepublicanBillsImmigrationPrimariesVulnerabilityImmigrantsVotersOfferingCitizenshipComprehensiveLong Periods Of TimeMarcos Author:Ted Cruz
“The dirty little secret is Donald Trump's views are not all that different from the rest of the Republicans in the field. Nobody in the Republican field supports a path to citizenship. They're all pretty tough on immigration.” LittlesDifferentViewsSecretSupportPathFieldsTrumpRepublicanToughImmigrationDirtyCitizenship Author:Eleanor Clift
“If we have a Democratic Senate I think the Republican Party will wake up to the reality that their opposition to comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship is a losing proposition. That Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric and derogatory comments do not really work in a national election. And I think we'll have a better chance to actually get something done.” IfsThinkingDoneRealityChancePartyPathTrumpRepublicanLosingWake UpElectionDemocraticImmigrationReformOppositionCommentSenateRhetoricCitizenshipRepublican PartyPropositionsComprehensiveImmigration ReformDerogatory Author:Hillary Clinton