My father's immigrant story is a big part of who I am.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded…

— Arlen Specter

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

— Mickey Kaus

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

— Arthur Rock

'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell…

— Grace Paley

When you look at what's written under the Statue of Liberty, it's the immigrant story. It's about 'bring me your tired, your poor, your…

— Daniel Dae Kim

My story is an immigrant story. My story is of people moving from one country thousands of miles away to another and forming new…

— Lenny Henry

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of…

— Jacques Pepin

I feel I have a responsibility to carry out the immigrant story, since it's one that I hold very dear to my heart, since…

— Dania Ramirez

Just classic immigrant story - I mean, child of immigrant story - did not grow up with cable and so felt constantly like I…

— Bowen Yang

It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're…

— Gloria Estefan

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes…

— Andrew Lam

America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they…

— Andrew Lam

Immigrant workers have become essential to the U.S. workforce, contributing across sectors and playing a noteworthy role in our country's economy.

— Tom Suozzi

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.

— Ted Cruz