Russell Pearce famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I'd do is get [female recipients] Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.
-- Russell Pearce

#Jobs #Alcohol #Drug
The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.
-- Russell Pearce

#Liberty #Lit #Candle
No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side.
-- Russell Pearce

#People #Matter #Arizona
Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.
-- Russell Pearce

#Promise #Paper #Politician
Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so.
-- Russell Pearce

#Law #Government #Arizona
I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.
-- Russell Pearce

#Law #America #People
In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it.
-- Russell Pearce

#Law #Evil #People
In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.
-- Russell Pearce

#Law #Enforcement #Immigration
Obama's Justice Department has also targeted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe bills himself as America's Toughest Sheriff for good reason. Maricopa County is responsible for one out of every four deportations in the country.
-- Russell Pearce

#Country #America #Justice
President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now going to have countries like Cuba, Libya and Uganda sitting in judgment on Arizona's laws? Enough is enough!
-- Russell Pearce

#Country #Uganda #Law
It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.
-- Russell Pearce

#Jobs #Support #Four
Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.
-- Russell Pearce

#Race #Crime #Illegal
One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.
-- Russell Pearce

#Promise #Proud #Done
If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.
-- Russell Pearce

#Law #Government #Political
Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!
-- Russell Pearce

#Home #Self #Law
An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. Thats 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.
-- Russell Pearce

#Years #Shooting #Dui
You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.
-- Russell Pearce

#Government #People #Defense
Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.
-- Russell Pearce

#Law #Leader #Restoration
I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.
-- Russell Pearce

#Mean #America #Sad Day
If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.
-- Russell Pearce

#Promise
Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.
-- Russell Pearce

#Fighting #Law #Trying

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