American - Politician | March 4, 1968 -
I see myself as more of a student, that I love to get down into the weeds of different problems and try to go through that. I don't mind messaging, but I'm going to default back to the research side of things.
James Lankford
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We have a very structured process for taking in refugees. It takes almost two years to transition from another country into the United States through the refugee process.
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It's very difficult for the family members of ICE agents, and it's very difficult for ICE agents to know what's right and what's wrong and why should I get engaged and go out there and enforce the law when I don't know what it means any more to have consequences.
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This is why it's bad to run a country by executive order: because our nation runs on laws - when everyone knows the law, and everyone knows what it is, you know both the law and the consequence, and you get that.
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When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.
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The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.
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The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.
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President Obama and I disagree on policy with Israel. He seems to say... 'We want peace, but we want to act like Switzerland. We're going to be a neutral party to everyone.' I think that's negotiating from weakness.
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I'm in favor of dealing with Iran and dealing with the nuclear issue, but I'm not in favor of a bad deal.
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The vast majority of Americans believe you don't discriminate. You don't. We honor each other. We don't all see life the same way. We don't. We're Americans.
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What I love to do is the policy. The politics, I'm brand-new at.
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I don't want to go home and tell my wife and my girls, 'I was gone last week because I had to do a press release.'
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