Lamar S. Smith Quotations

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

What they are doing is disarming in the battle to stop illegal drugs and illegal aliens.

It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.

American taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill for the overwhelming costs of amnesty. Under current law, once 11 million illegal immigrants receive probationary status, they will immediately have access to federal benefits like Social Security and Obamacare coverage. If we thought we had a problem with government spending before, just wait.

The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

Apparently, union bosses are so distraught about declining enrollments they will stoop to exploiting illegal workers. There is no doubt that this would hurt American workers, who would suddenly face a flooded job market full of cheap foreign labor. It would depress the wages of the American workers and cost them jobs.

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.