Browsing Topic Best Immigrants Quotes

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here… then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States – that is an immigrant’s dream. It is the American dream.

[We need] to choose immigrants based on merit. Merit, skill, and proficiency. Doesn’t that sound nice? And to establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first.

As an immigrant, I truly believed when I was coming to this country that people had the tools necessary to live a life that is prosperous, that is just, and free. So, every single day, I am shocked by the hypocrisy of this country. That we are the wealthiest nation in the world. But we cannot figure out how to house our homeless people.

I reflect back on my mom’s journey, someone who was an immigrant to Canada and came not knowing anything and figured it out tremendously. I reflect back on that a lot.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

So where are they moving today? They’re going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.

I have only one loyalty and that’s to the immigrant community.

So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.

I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants’ labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.

I’m an immigrant myself. I’d probably support it, but I can’t do much.

My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

Donald Trump’s going to start a war, he’s going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he’s going to have to distract them from the no jobs.

It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.

I’m an immigrant and I’ve always wanted to write something about America.

My film is in French. It’s not something folkloric. It’s who we are. There’s this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I’m on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language.

I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

I’m an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They’re understandable to a considerable number of Americans.

Donald Trump is not an immigrant basher. His mother was a legal immigrant. His wife is a legal immigrant. He employs legal immigrants. He just likes his immigrants to be legal.

I think there are too many guns. That’s a problem. I’d rather have immigrants than guns.

I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.

We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you’re immigrants, you’re not part of that history.

It’s unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic.

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.

I don’t know the right number of immigrants to let in.

Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.