Immigrants Quotes · Page 6

When you're the son of an immigrant who came here seeking freedom, it makes you appreciate.

— Ted Cruz

Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.

— Geert Wilders

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

— Grace Meng

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.

— Mark Shields

My parents are both immigrants, and we traveled a lot.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders.

— Larry Flynt

Illegal immigrants should be required to return to their home country.

— Mitt Romney

The idea is, Mr. [Donald] Trump won the primaries in no small way because he had this very forceful position, saying all…

— Jake Tapper

Donald Trump is not an immigrant basher. His mother was a legal immigrant. His wife is a legal immigrant. He employs legal…

— Newt Gingrich

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

Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of…

— Barack Obama

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

— Jon Kyl

I don't know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very…

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Andrew Lam

I will unabashedly stand up for our sanctuary city policies which have kept New Yorkers safe, and use every tool at the…

— Zohran Mamdani

Salaries haven't kept up with inflation, and there is such anger coming out of Washington about immigrants that I think it has…

— Jose Serrano

Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He…

— Conan O'Brien

I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant…

— Laila Lalami

“I find the whole thing bizarre because I can’t imagine anyone raised in District 13 being a threat the government would have…

— Suzanne Collins

The Trump campaign's promise to detain and deport millions of immigrants, along with many American citizens, is a promise to plunge the…

— Jamelle Bouie

My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could…

— Kirk Douglas

As ISIS begins to gain momentum beyond where they already are, it really does create - but you see the surge of…

— William H. McRaven

Immigrants who voluntarily come to a country have already made a decision to assimilate to one degree or another. Probably not completely,…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea…

— Charley Reese

More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each…

— William J. Clinton

It would be a mistake to overstate the similarities between the Brexit vote and Trump's win - but there are common themes,…

— Mariana Mazzucato

The left think they've got a monopoly on this silly idea that we are a nation of immigrants, America's greatness is traceable…

— Rush Limbaugh

I was born in Quebec City, I've lived there many years before moving to Montreal and then Ottawa. And I mean, Quebec…

— Andre Pratte

Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles…

— George W. Bush

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

— Janeane Garofalo

Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

We can't deny the financial toll illegal immigrants take on our communities.

— Dick Mountjoy

Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants

— Jay-Z

I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.

— Sofia Vergara

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

— Renee Zellweger

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

People associate farmworkers with illegal immigrants, and that's really not the case.

— Eva Longoria

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.

— Eric Garcetti