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I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he… — Ronald Reagan
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in… — Thomas Jefferson
There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people… — Henry Cisneros
[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay… — William J. Clinton
I believe the Visa Waiver Program, it essentially is the soft underbelly of the visa system. Now we have 35 countries in it. We have… — Dianne Feinstein
...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal immigration. Immigrants come… — Barbara Jordan
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And… — George F. Kennan
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But… — Ed Koch
Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places where they would… — Ed Koch
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children… — Marshall Fritz
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront… — Ajahn Brahm
We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries. — Kathleen Brown
Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes… — Kathleen Brown
As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration… — Gaylord Nelson
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so… — Walter J. Phillips
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in… — Ernest Renan
As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also through criminalization of… — Johan Galtung
But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the… — Humphry Davy
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises
While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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