Immigrants Quotes
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When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
Michael Mina -
It's incumbent on politicians to make the case that it is not for blaming immigrants about jobs and housing. Actually, it is up to us to provide the solutions and support to people.
Nicky Morgan
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Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.
Ernest Istook -
Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in our socioeconomic interests - not to mention our spiritual health - to integrate immigrants, that our nation functions best when we welcome newcomers and help them participate fully in our society?
Andrew Lam -
Our country's history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that 'all men are created equal' for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees.
Raja Krishnamoorthi -
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
Ernest Istook -
As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.
Richard Lugar -
We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
Bill Clinton
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My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.
Mickey Kaus -
When we hear a candidate for president call for rounding up 12 million immigrants, banning all Muslims from entering the United States, when he embraces torture, that doesn't make him strong, it makes him wrong.
Hillary Clinton -
We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.
Raul Grijalva -
I think it's so important we're a nation of laws but also a nation of immigrants.
Raja Krishnamoorthi -
The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.
Eric Ries -
It has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.
Bill Clinton
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Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.
Michael Rosbash -
I met lots of people who felt it was important to give voice to immigrants and refugees. Once I started working in journalism, I found more opportunities. One great benefit is traveling and meeting interesting people. As a journalist, you can call up anyone and ask to interview them, meet them, and learn things.
Nguyen Qui Duc -
I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.
Eric Garcetti -
The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.
Juan Williams -
What we did with deeming rules were designed - it was designed to keep costs from coming on to the government that should be borne by families of immigrants who actually have incomes and can afford to pay.
Bill Clinton -
For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal.
Ben Aaronovitch
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People associate farmworkers with illegal immigrants, and that's really not the case.
Eva Longoria -
I believe that when we have millions of hard-working immigrants contributing to our economy, it would be self-defeating and inhumane to try to kick them out. Comprehensive immigration reform will grow our economy and keep families together, and it's the right thing to do.
Hillary Clinton