Tancredo, Tom Filmography

• CNN/YouTube Republican Debate
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Brothers and Others
  2003, role: actor

Famous quotes by Tom Tancredo:

"because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam ? and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists."

"The appropriateness of the design has been questioned by many people because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam - and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists,"

"We are in this sort of knee-jerk reaction mode."

"But believe me, ... it's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg in terms of the sort of personnel shifting that needs to go on."

"I don't trust FEMA any more than the agencies in the state of Louisiana."

"Oh, believe me, it will be one hell of a fight. I guarantee you, ... I'll do everything I can. It will be interesting to see how this thing certainly plays out."

"The timing of the survey's start and early dismissal, and the DHS gag order and stonewalling of Judicial Watch's request, suggest that the administration is playing politics with border security data. I hope that this is not the case."

"Well, ... what if you said something like -- if this happens in the United States and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites."

"enlist the aid of every organization out there to alert the general public of everything going on."

"The best thing to do is to see what we can accomplish,"

"We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for."

"If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem."

"The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters."

"Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law."

"You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it."

"He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing."

"To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders."

"We can control our borders, we just choose not too."

"Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them."

"I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours."