Adopted Quote by Iman Abdulmajid

I became a citizen after 9/11.

— Barry Trotz

After 9/11, I had just become an American citizen, and I remember sitting in front of my TV set watching the news of the…

— Pramila Jayapal

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an…

— Leonard Nimoy

I was born and raised in America.

— Dorit Kemsley

I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.

— Lana Condor

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he…

— Marco Rubio

When I was 10 years old, my neighbor died in front of me of an asthma attack, because he and his family were undocumented…

— Leana S. Wen

When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me…

— Sonita Alizadeh

My mom came to America when I was six years old, and I didn't live with them until I was ten. They worked really…

— Dania Ramirez

3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to…

— Frank Miller

My second husband was an American. We traveled all over the world and everywhere we went he would say to people, I am an…

— John Paxton