Exclusion Criteria Quotes

The caucus is not open to former Senators.

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

Shoot up everything except a school or a playground

I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.

Basically I listen to just about everything except heavy metal.

If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.

Why turn away from that talent? What is it in today's parties that is virtually saying, 'Well, if you're a George Williams or Garr Barwick, you may not get pre-selection?' I'd like to reverse that.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

I have never been in harmony with the proposition to apply the educational test [to immigrants]. If that test had been applied two hundred years ago I have ancestors who never would have gotten in.

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

The following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy, anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public officials

If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

The first general immigration act was passed as recently as 1882 and provided only for the exclusion of convicts … of lunatics, of idiots, and of persons likely to become a public charge.

I tried to join three gangs, and every single one gave me a different excuse, but it was pretty much along the lines of, 'You're too goofy. You're too cute. You don't fit in.'