Immigrants Quotes · Page 8

I think Donald Trump will articulate what we do with the people [immigrants] who are here.

— Mike Pence

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

— John F. Kennedy

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

— Eddie Izzard

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

— Marvin Olasky

Too many immigrants lack basic workplace protections because of their immigration status.

— Alex Padilla

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

— Billy Corgan

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

— Barack Obama

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

— Boris Johnson

What separates us Americans from the countries that so many immigrants are leaving is that we are a nation of laws -…

— Donald Trump

As the proud son of immigrants from Mexico, I'm honored to be the first Latino to serve as Chair of the Senate…

— Alex Padilla

Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights.…

— Camila Cabello

“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" -…

— Sherry Marie Gallagher

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I…

— Maurice Sendak

I can understand why immigrants would want to bring the rest of their extended family here, including older ones who will benefit…

— Maxime Bernier

All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies…

— James Surowiecki

I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing…

— Karen Mills

I grew up in a town in France called Saint-Die, where there were many immigrants - Senegalese, Morrocans, Turks. My parents came…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants…

— Porochista Khakpour

We will have a proper tracking system. Approximately half of new illegal immigrants came on temporary visas and then never, ever left.…

— Donald Trump

Conservatives, in general, are anti-immigrant for the same reasons they have always been anti-immigrant - a proud tradition in our nation of…

— Molly Ivins

At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In…

— Sergio Troncoso

If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself…

— Arundhati Roy

The nexus of Donald Trump's hateful behaviors and policies around Muslim people and immigrants comes together right here in Minneapolis. I knew…

— Betsy Hodges

“Carlo felt sad losing the companionship of his new friends and thought about how fortunate Americans were to have immigrants in ever-increasing…

— Joseph F. Girzone

“I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it." "I know it," Prew…

— James Jones

In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new…

— Dick Armey

I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little…

— Stephen King

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth…

— Noam Chomsky

Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new…

— Maureen Dowd

“Patriotism taken too far is fanaticism. No matter who you are or where you're from.' 'These filthy foreigners made us look bad.'…

— Rick Remender

Without our immigrants, who will kick our field goals, or train our white tigers?

— Nikhil Saluja

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

— Martin Lewis Perl

I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

— Phil Gramm

Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

— Tariq Ramadan

I'm very sensitive and compassionate toward immigrants.

— Nicole Malliotakis

All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

— Daniel Pipes

Everyone talks about immigrants taking jobs, but there are a lot of jobs that America needs.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best.

— Donald Trump