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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
More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each generation, they have… — William J. Clinton
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world. — Alan Greenspan
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall be… — James G. Blaine
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will… — Thomas Jefferson
In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new ideas, an entrepreneurial… — Dick Armey
The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness -… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It's lies to… — Paul Broun
The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of… — Louis Agassiz
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
Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from… — William J. Clinton
What we did with deeming rules were designed - it was designed to keep costs from coming on to the government that should be borne… — William J. Clinton
[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants. — William J. Clinton
A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding… — Bob Dole
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
I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have… — Newt Gingrich
Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you work hard and you happen… — Rudy Giuliani
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing… — Alan Greenspan
...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
We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for employers to lay… — Edward Kennedy

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