"One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits."
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"Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal."
"Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?"
"What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal."
"No human being is illegal."
"How can a human being be illegal?"
"I always felt like I had the word "illegal" tattooed on my forehead."
"You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal."
"It's illegal to be naked."
"The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it."
"A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it."
"Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday."
"… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong."
"It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it."
"Illegal is not a race, it is a crime."
"Giggling should be made illegal."
"It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers."
"In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society."
"Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'"
"Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother."