Immigrants Quotes - Page 33

• If you're living hand-to-mouth, and still buying into the con that the big threats to America are socialized medicine, Mexican immigrants and tax increases, then you're not being kept down by the rich. You're being kept down by you.

  Bill Maher

  Hands, Medicine, America

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• At a time when Democratic leaders are pushing rationed care in a world of limited resources, Americans might wonder where the call for shared sacrifice is from illegal immigrant patients like those in Los Angeles getting free liver and kidney transplants at UCLA Medical Center. 'I'm just mad,' illegal alien Jose Lopez told the Los Angeles Times last year after receiving two taxpayer-subsidized liver transplants while impatiently awaiting approval for state health insurance.

  Michelle Malkin

  Sacrifice, Ucla, Years

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• It is true that the top quintile is getting richer while the bottom is getting poorer, but the bottom is not the same people. There is, fortunately, a constant churning at the bottom as new immigrants move in and those who used to be on the bottom begin their long, thrilling upward climb to the American dream.

  Dick Morris

  Dream, Moving, Long

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• I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things.

  Tom Ford

  Country, Thinking, America

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• I'm not someone who's an immigrant who's struggling in that way, but between New York and L.A., I had someone tell me very early on, "If you're going to be broke anywhere, it's better to be broke in L.A. At least the weather is nice." I was like, "You're right." I didn't take them up on that.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Nice, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

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• I was interested in immigration and I wanted to use that in the film, not necessarily to talk about immigrants, although I wanted to do that, but to talk about ourselves through the eyes of an immigrant. The film takes place in the school and it tells us a little bit about who we are and where we're at, but through the eyes of someone who has a different background.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Eye, School, Immigration

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Who We Are, Sides, Language

  Source: collider.com

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• Oswald Mosley`s movement, it was a big movement. It was obviously anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, it was populist. Mosley wanted to replace the parliamentary system of government in Britain with a government that was based on business interests, that was based on the idea that business interests were the real interests of that country and business interests.
  and reorganizing the government to serve business interests, that would be a way to get stuff done faster and more efficiently.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Real, Ideas

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• Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Party, Holocaust

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• Marine Le Pen is more careful than her dad was about saying things like denying the Holocaust, right? But it`s the same politics. It`s the same modern anti anti-immigrant, anti-and the Semitic, xenophobic authoritarian modern pseudo-fascism.

  Rachel Maddow

  Dad, Marine, Holocaust

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• My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

  David Mamet

  Horse, Dad, Hippie

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 10, 2011.

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• There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.

  Niger Innis

  Compelling Reason, Land, America

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• If Obama can force you to get health insurance just by calling it a tax, than there is nothing to stop him from making you gay marry an illegal immigrant wearing a condom on a hydroponic pot farm powered by solar energy.

  Stephen Colbert

  Gay, Calling, Energy

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• If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

  Bill Maher

  Gun, People, Religion

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• I am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next."

  Claes Oldenburg

  Mother, New York, Children

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don`t go to the dark side. Don`t go bashing immigrants or Muslims.

  Bernie Sanders

  Dark, Sides, Dark Side

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• Spelling is difficult because there are too many rules. Silent letters only exist to make it harder for illegal immigrants to learn English.

  Daniel Tosh

  Immigration, Letters, Silent

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• I do have very deep, fond memories of my family in Mexico City, but I also remember feeling funny for not speaking English - I was basically an immigrant. But I picked up the language fast and soon I knew that I wanted to be a writer.

  Louis C. K.

  Memories, Cities, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unlicensed, illegal immigrants are the safest drivers on the road.

  Dov Davidoff

  Immigration, Illegal, Drivers

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 15, 2012

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• Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.

  Godfrey

  Country, Xenophobia, Native American

  Interview with Bryce Rudow, thedailybanter.com. January 15, 2014.

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• Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  New York, Cities, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

  Bobby Jindal

  Law, Enforcement, Individual

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• As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways.

  David Roediger

  Kids, Color, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.

  David Roediger

  Law, White, Long

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, United States, Illegal

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, www.guernicamag.com. ugust 15, 2011.

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