Jared Polis Quotes

We can pass practical, comprehensive immigration reform.

Jared Polis

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• I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • American
  • Immigration

• Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Important
  • America
  • Know

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • People
  • Blood
  • Immigration

• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Up
  • Happy
  • House

• If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Immigration
  • Illegal

• Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Problems
  • Immigration
  • Now

• Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Year
  • Immigration

• Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Work
  • Want
  • Immigration

• Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Fear

• There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Question
  • Stupid

• There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Community
  • Immigration
  • U.S.

• Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Immigration
  • Meaningful

• I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Storyteller

• Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Say
  • Immigration
  • Saying

• Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Law
  • Support
  • Immigration

• The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Immigration
  • Immigrants

• For far too long, the Republican leadership in Congress has refused to act and pass comprehensive reform fixing our broken immigration system. In light of Republican inaction, I strongly support President Obama's executive actions on immigration.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Long
  • Light
  • Support

• To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of making you a subject and them the spectators. That is disturbing and counterproductive. And then suddenly they are surprised or find it alienating that the microcosmic effects of Palestine are happening in the U.S., France, and England, whether it's from the Islamic movements or immigration factors. Keeping a false purity of their countries will harm them eventually.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Immigration
  • Surprised
  • Occupation

• But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

  

  Leo Ornstein
  • Music
  • Art
  • Simple

• In my head, I believed even though I am an actor, there was no need to dance. That's not me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Dance
  • Actor

• We can pass practical, comprehensive immigration reform.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Immigration