Immigrants Quotes · Page 43

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

— Elton Gallegly

In every part of the world with which I am familiar, young people are completely immersed in the digital world - so…

— Howard Gardner

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

— Phillip Lim

All the studies say that immigrants are less likely to be criminals in the United States. That's what they say. The sources…

— Joe Arpaio

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

— Laila Lalami

My parents were electrical engineers, immigrants from China, and we were always just in a state of struggle, building our life.

— Simu Liu

Sure, immigrants will do work that no-one else will do. There was even a movie about it - 'A Day Without Mexicans.'

— Ry Cooder

Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless…

— Thomas Cahill

I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

— Brian Sandoval

The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when…

— Barack Obama

I could have sworn that they were originally Americans who maybe fled. Maybe they were illegal immigrants or something who got here,…

— Rush Limbaugh

[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas,…

— Sylvia Poggioli

I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations.…

— Vicente Fox

I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves,…

— Jesmyn Ward

Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome…

— Anousheh Ansari

America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing…

— Wyclef Jean

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of…

— Nikki Haley

An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants.

— Mitt Romney

[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants,…

— Junot Diaz

One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact…

— Christine Todd Whitman

The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man…

— Janeane Garofalo

If we want to set and enforce a limit on immigration, we have to be willing to say no to would-be immigrants…

— Jan C. Ting

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

— Andrew Lam

Immigrants not only contribute to Houston's sociocultural fabric, including through their language, cuisine, faith, and customs, but are also an exceedingly important…

— Al N. Green

I think you have to take the man at his word [Donald Trump]. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by…

— Hillary Clinton