American citizenship Quote by Alejandro Mayorkas

Fleeing from a country where one feared the communist soldier, my parents brought us to a nation whose men and women in uniform risk…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

At the age of 16, my father, mother and I had come to America from Poland in hopes of a better life.

— Sebastian Janikowski

My parents instilled a lot of American values in me. They encouraged me to work hard and told me that anything was possible for…

— Diane Guerrero

My American mother and father dedicated their lives to their children. It is with their love and guidance that I adjusted to my new…

— Michaela DePrince

I am a legal immigrant whose parents went from Russia to China to Chile to finally reach the United States and thereby give me…

— Mike Medavoy

Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets…

— Ted Lieu

My parents fled from a Cuban dictatorship in search of freedom. Growing up, I saw my parents struggle... I am here today because of…

— Alexander Acosta

My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

— Uzo Aduba

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking…

— Daniel Nathans

My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious…

— Jan Schakowsky

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler…

— Madeleine Albright