Immigrants Quotes · Page 15

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino'…

— Hugh Jackman

When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of…

— Diana L. Eck

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

It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens.

— Jon Kyl

The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew…

— Theodor Herzl

I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.

— Adrian Beltre

The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country…

— Julius Streicher

Only 36 percent of Americans could pass a multiple-choice civics test of the kind that is administered to immigrants seeking to become citizens.

— Max Boot

I'm not concerned about what [Donald Trump] says about me. That doesn't matter to me. I'm going to stand up for immigrants.…

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Barack Obama

“I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and…

— Sergio Troncoso

Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to…

— William J. Clinton

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

— Margaret Mead

I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a…

— Deeyah Khan

[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every…

— William J. Clinton

The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.

— Tania Bruguera

Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden,…

— Andrew Lam

The thing about immigrants is the people who come to this country with that kind of drive? They are risk-takers. And we…

— Mazie Hirono

Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to…

— George H. W. Bush

I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker…

— Junot Diaz

[T]his is another reason why the children of illegals are sought for public schools: They'll put up with it. The children of…

— Rush Limbaugh

Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

— Yakov Smirnoff

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

— Lamar S. Smith

The Trump administration recognizes that most refugees and immigrants are good people, but practical and temporary measures must be taken to keep…

— Kayleigh McEnany

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

— E. L. Doctorow