Tom Tancredo Quotes

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

No party is as bad as its state and national leaders.

The corrosion of our public language reflects deep pathologies — societal, cultural, economic — in the body politic.

There's been cultural rot since there's been culture.

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die.

[The Democrats] can't stop anything. It's why everybody's so confused why they reelected [Nancy] Pelosi.

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.

Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.

A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation's soul.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

I think that's why we see this mixed reaction - Republican congressional leaders like Paul Ryan speaking out very firmly, but Republican candidates not as much, with the exception of the candidates in the single digits like Jeb Bush or Lindsey Graham, who said how to make America great again tell - Donald Trump to go to hell.

I think the leaders in all parties tend to adjust to reality. They just have to or they won't remain in office.

I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.