In many ways, I consider those to be my formative years, because when you're in school, you have a distant relationship to the world in that most of what you're learning is from books and lectures. But at Amnesty, I came face to face with realities in a very direct and harsh way.

Lynn Nottage

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Ambrose Bierce

I will never support amnesty legislation because it will not work.

Bill Flores

My constituents feel betrayed by the promise that Reagan made, that if we grant amnesty, we'll then secure the border. We obviously didn't do that.

Blake Farenthold

I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we've got to define what amnesty is in this country.

Blake Farenthold

It is time for Republicans in D.C. to fight. Too often, they give up; they negotiate with themselves. They said they would get rid of the unconstitutional amnesty. They didn't do that. They said they would repeal Obamacare if we gave them the majority. They didn't do that, either.

Bobby Jindal

I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

Brian Sandoval

I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty.

Charles Murray

I don't believe in amnesty... What I have proposed is that we would come forth with a program that allows individuals to come forward and to plead guilty... They would have to pay a fine; they would have to go through a background check - some say learn English - and they would get learned legal status.

Chris Gibson

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.

Chris Morris

I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States who has not committed a violent crime, with a special emphasis on keeping families together.

Conor Oberst

Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.

Cory Gardner

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

Dave Brat

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.

David Blunkett

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

Dick Mountjoy

I do not believe on giving amnesty.

Doug Hoffman

Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.

Edwin Meese

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

Erin Gruwell

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

Eugene Jarecki

If there's amnesty leading to citizenship, I'm going to vote against it again.

Frank Wolf

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

Geraldine Brooks