Immigrants Quotes · Page 18

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we…

— Khaled Hosseini

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially…

— Gloria Estefan

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

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on…

— Gene Tierney

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent…

— Samuel P. Huntington

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants…

— Jan C. Ting

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

— Christine Quinn

Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.

— Justin Trudeau

In the public debate, while commentators and critics have targeted immigrants with blame and bullying, our nation's immigrants have simply kept on…

— Luis Gutierrez

One of the defining characteristics or difference between today's illegal immigration and the immigration of old is the immigrants of the late…

— Rush Limbaugh

We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen…

— Mark Levin

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

— Thomas Cahill

For immigrant women, the very act of immigration is about opportunity, equality, and freedom. Women immigrants come to America to care for…

— Pramila Jayapal

I'm simply asking that people who arrive from Cuba receive the same treatment as any other immigrant who comes from another country.…

— Marco Rubio

“Refugees are not a monolith. Each journey is unique. Some arrive with dreams and aspirations; others carry the heavy burdens of trauma…

— Hagir Elsheikh

When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“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

“[Immigrants] who come from anywhere there is hunger, unemployment, oppression, and violence and who clandestinely cross the borders of countries that are…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Cleve Jones

I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom…

— Elia Kazan

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and…

— Leonard Nimoy

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

— Grover Norquist

Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a…

— Luis Gutierrez

Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters…

— David Remnick

I am a granddaughter of immigrants, put myself through college as a waitress, and I started my career as a computer programmer.

— Jacky Rosen

If Donald Trump builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he'll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it.

— Marco Rubio

I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.

— Rick Santelli

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

— Lamar S. Smith

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

— Ed Koch

What we did with deeming rules were designed - it was designed to keep costs from coming on to the government that…

— William J. Clinton

While low-skilled immigrants have a place in our economy, a greater priority needs to be placed on attracting high-skilled immigrants to match…

— Mercedes Schlapp

The rise of populism is in part a response to stagnating incomes and job loss, owing mostly to new technologies but widely…

— Richard N. Haass

“I have finally learned that I am as much a part of this country as those villagers. Whether they like it or…

— Sherry Garland

In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who…

— Jared Polis

The illegal immigrants are like termites. They are eating the grain that should go to the poor; they are taking our jobs.

— Amit Shah

So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the…

— Luis Gutierrez

Open borders and the never-ending parade of illegal immigrants does nothing to build the national economy or the American culture.

— Rush Limbaugh

As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create…

— Jan Schakowsky