Immigrants Quotes · Page 6

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

— Bob Menendez

This will always be a nation of immigrants. It is the one common trait we all share.

— Mike Parson

“When the Pilgrim speaks, borders fall, the migrant soul becomes the all.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Don't go to the dark side. Don't go bashing immigrants or Muslims.

— Bernie Sanders

We're not radical when we are speaking about fewer immigrants.

— Maxime Bernier

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

— Junot Diaz

“Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.”

— Padma Lakshmi

“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs”

— Sherry Marie Gallagher

There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.

— Bill Foster

Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and…

— Fred Thompson

I believe that a limited quantity of immigrants, possibly through an Australian-style program on the basis of work qualifications, can be let…

— Matteo Salvini

It is erroneous and profoundly irresponsible to suggest that up to three million undocumented immigrants living in America are dangerous criminals.

— Kevin de Leon

“For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call…

— Cristina García

It's our right, as a sovereign nation to chose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love…

— Donald Trump

I made 'The Farewell' for me, for my family, and for other immigrant children, or children of immigrants, who feel caught in-between…

— Lulu Wang

65 immigration acts went through right at the time of the Great Society program. So pre-1970 immigrants - and that's basically when…

— Ann Coulter

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

[Donald Trump] has nothing to show for it but fear in every way. To people who are sick, fear, to people who…

— Nancy Pelosi

Illegal immigrants are people that have very little education. They are mostly people who are very poor. They arrive needing government assistance…

— Rush Limbaugh

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 wonder if my father, given the chance, would have wished to go back to the time before he made all that…

— Chang-rae Lee

I'm a radical pro-immigration advocate. I'm not saying we just look at the Muslim world or we just look at China, we…

— Thomas Friedman

All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the…

— William J. Clinton

Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but…

— Edward Alsworth Ross

One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and…

— Kenneth Prewitt

I believe it is essential to have English as the official language of our National Government, for the English language is the…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli…

— David Ben-Gurion

To be sure, most immigrants are good and most Muslims are peaceful.

— Kayleigh McEnany

Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian.

— Peter Jennings

The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.

— Ruchi Sanghvi

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

— Karla Souza

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

— Stephen Ambrose

Successful immigrants assimilate or become bi-cultural.

— David Starkey

The Supreme Court has only granted citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants, not illegal.

— Rush Limbaugh

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

— John Linder