Immigrants Quotes - Page 4

• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  Camille Paglia

  Intellectual, Style, Encounters

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• We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

  Rand Paul

  Black And White, Rights, Liberty

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

  Christine Pelosi

  Believe, Fighting, Equality For All

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• I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Night, Want

  "Robert Plant: the showman must go on". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2011.

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• Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Europe, Survival

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. 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.

  William J. Clinton

  Self, Years, Law

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's State of the Union address, millercenter.org. January 24, 1995.

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• 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.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Immigration, Income

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• [It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Immigration, Way

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• It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution to the fabric of American life. But...under the pressures we face today, we can't afford to lose control of our borders, or to take on new financial burdens, at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care, and the education of our own people. Therefore, immigration must be a priority for this administration.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Jobs, People

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• All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art

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• Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Opportunity, America, Community

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• We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.

  Jack Kemp

  Daughter, Mean, Son

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• Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal immigration for it undermines control of our borders...and even more punishes hard-working people who play by the rules and who wait for their turn to come to the United States. Therefore we must enforce our laws, but we will do so with justice and fairness.

  William J. Clinton

  Hard Work, Law, Play

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• Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.

  William J. Clinton

  Honor, Immigration, Citizens

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• [Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Years, People

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995”, Government Printing Office

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• Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Law, Giving

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• All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Jobs, Numbers

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's State of the Union address, millercenter.org. January 24, 1995.

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• You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

  Shaun Tan

  Discovery, Car, Trying

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• Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book.

  Roberto Bolano

  Book, Childhood, Literature

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• We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.

  Jared Diamond

  War, Musical, Majority

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• Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Ghetto, Average, Black

  Theodore J. Kaczynski (2010). “Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a.”, p.41, Feral House

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• America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Change, Stars, Past

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• Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Horse, Believe

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1417, Best Books on

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• For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They have come here for the same reason that families have always come here-for the hope that in America, they could build a better life for themselves and their families. Like the waves of immigrants that came before them and the Hispanic Americans whose families have been here for generations, the recent arrival of Latino immigrants will only enrich our country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, America, Immigration

  Barack Obama's Remarks to NALEO, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2008.

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

  Luis Gutierrez

  Immigration, Dependable, Labor

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