Immigrants Quotes · Page 10

Giving tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants needs to stop.

— Mitt Romney

Everyone talks about immigrants taking jobs, but there are a lot of jobs that America needs.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

— Daniel Pipes

Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

— Tariq Ramadan

I'm very sensitive and compassionate toward immigrants.

— Nicole Malliotakis

I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

— Phil Gramm

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

— Martin Lewis Perl

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

— Boris Johnson

We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a…

— Hillary Clinton

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood…

— Eugene Jarecki

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

— Diane Ackerman

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

— Tacitus

Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long…

— Paul Achleitner

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

— Luis Gutierrez

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the…

— Timothy Murphy

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

— Lamar S. Smith

If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What…

— Ron Paul

During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a…

— Frederic Raphael

It is true that the top quintile is getting richer while the bottom is getting poorer, but the bottom is not the…

— Dick Morris

We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a…

— William J. Clinton

If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been…

— Susan Jacoby

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act…

— Anonymous

Irrespective of our foreign policies, for decades, other nations and peoples could see, in the United States, a strong democracy that could…

— Ben Rhodes

As a son of Jamaican immigrants whose father cut sugarcane as a contract farm worker for over a decade and whose mother…

— Wayne Messam

“The way I look at it, women in the City are like first-generation immigrants. You get off the boat, you keep your…

— Allison Pearson

“If poor, young, and nonwhite, the intruder from outside is deemed guilty at first sight, guilty of indigence, of chaos, of carrying…

— Eduardo Galeano

Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we've got a backlog that means years…

— Barack Obama

Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment,…

— Cleve Jones

Now the roles have been reversed, because the Hillary [Clinton] campaign is livid that they lost, and they think they lost because…

— Rush Limbaugh

“After all, we are all immigrants to the future; none of us is a native in that land. Margaret Mead famously wrote…

— Marina Gorbis

Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in…

— Robert Wuthnow

I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of…

— Anne Waldman

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

— Barack Obama

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

— Billy Corgan

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote…

— Rick Renzi

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic…

— Luis Gutierrez

Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

— Walt Mossberg

I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet…

— John Linder

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that…

— Gary Locke

They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to…

— Jeb Bush