Kit Bond Quotes

• Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.

  Kit Bond

• While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

  Kit Bond

• We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

  Kit Bond

• Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules.

  Kit Bond

• The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

  Kit Bond

• The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.

  Kit Bond

• The death tax punishes the American dream – making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

  Kit Bond

• The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

  Kit Bond

• Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.

  Kit Bond

• Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

  Kit Bond

• Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

  Kit Bond

• Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.

  Kit Bond

• Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

  Kit Bond

• One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

  Kit Bond

• No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

  Kit Bond

• My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he’d sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

  Kit Bond

• It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

  Kit Bond

• If we don’t act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.

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• I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.

  Kit Bond

• I don’t think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don’t care about the United States. They do.

  Kit Bond

Kit Bond (29)

Birth:	6th March, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Attorney

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