Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It simply doesn't make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I recently spoke with Barbara Jordan of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, and I increasingly believe we need a system to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
What we did with deeming rules were designed - it was designed to keep costs from coming on to the government that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I support lowering the level of legal immigration by a moderate amount at this time. Legal immigration reform must be based upon… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I take full responsability...for what we did. It was the right thing to do. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
You know, I've always been really interested in this stuff, and I'm going to read this. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We [Democrats] have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
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