Immigration Quotes · Page 82

“the pursuit of experience is the refuge of the unimaginative.”

— Hubert Crackanthorpe

“The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don’t understand how many of the immigrants and refugees…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Migration is the story of my body”

— Victor Hernández Cruz

The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum…

— Eileen Simpson

Both parties want it now. They want comprehensive immigration reform, and they want open borders.

— Rush Limbaugh

People tell me ridiculous things and then say they're joking. Like, at the Dubai immigration, the officer told me that I've been…

— Chunky Pandey

Just because they broke the law doesn't mean they're condemned forever to a twilight status. So, I think that most Americans, if…

— John McCain

[Immigrants ] are going back where they came. If they came from a certain country, they are going to be brought back…

— Donald Trump

You're not supposed to be admitted to America if you're likely to be a charge on the public - if you're going…

— Jeff Sessions

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger,…

— Adam Hochschild

If you look at the movement of refugees, in Vladimir Lenin's phrase, "the people who voted with their feet," the movement of…

— Bernard Lewis

As we leave the E.U., freedom of movement falls away, because it's an E.U. rule... What we then have to say is,…

— Keir Starmer

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done…

— Bill Gates

While we're members of the European Union, we don't have an immigration policy. We can't have an immigration policy. It's a charade…

— Nigel Farage

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

I didn't want the film to be didactic, and this is tough because if you look at the list of issues, you…

— Philippe Falardeau

“Racism. . . . fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted…

— James Hamilton-Paterson

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these,…

— Emma Lazarus

We are a nation of laws and we must enforce our immigration laws.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we…

— William J. Clinton

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected…

— Rabindranath Maharaj

Immigration is an emotional issue. And it ought to be an emotional issue because it affects people's lives.

— Stephen Miller

Even now in America, you know, when people say they hate immigrants, they're not referring to a Canadian immigrant. You know, they're…

— Trevor Noah

Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.

— Kirstjen Nielsen

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

— Gary Ackerman

“When people make wars, they make refugees.”

— Michael Morpurgo

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when…

— Roberto Bolano

Mass immigration changes countries beyond recognition. Ordinary people are well aware of that.

— Geert Wilders

When you look at the people that Donald Trump is actually put around him on his Cabinet, this is a pretty -…

— Amy Walter

Our young immigrants have a lot to offer. They are motivated and hard-working, and in many cases have already contributed significantly to…

— Gerald Chertavian

“Towns [in the Midwest] with immigrants are growing. Towns without immigrants are shrinking. It's as simple as that.”

— Richard C. Longworth

[Donald] Trump is the only Republican candidate in the last seven cycles to understand all three legs of the foreign policy stool…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined.

— Oren Etzioni

I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one…

— Pat Buchanan

If it is orderly and lawful, immigration is good for our economy.

— Barack Obama

“Being an immigrant is not for sissies.”

— Helen Russell

When I reached America, there was so much space and colour. The possibilities seemed endless. At least that's how I felt at…

— Martina Navratilova

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

— Erich Leinsdorf