Immigrants Quotes - Page 13

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

Hugh Jackman

War, Coffee, Hard Work

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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

Eddie Izzard

Jobs, Citizens, Knows

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

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Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment, slash benefits and put single mothers into hostels instead of giving them council flats. Finally, if we chucked out all the illegal immigrants and asylum seekers there would be enough jobs for everyone.

Ken Bates

Football, Mother, Jobs

"Sneijder's Hannibal Lecter impression, AVB tells Cole to cut out the fags and Ken Bates' Daily Mail-esque rant". www.mirror.co.uk. August 21, 2011.

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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

Years, Dollars, Cost

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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

Father, Son, America

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As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Opportunity, America, Arms

"Schwarzenegger announces bid for governor". www.cnn.com. August 7, 2003.

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At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries recognized that such "Americanization" could be achieved through literacy. Thus, teaching immigrants to read was not just a benefit in and of itself; literacy would also serve the interests of democracy.

Kevin Mattson

Teaching, Goal, Democracy

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The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

James Hillman

Children, Home, White

"On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview With Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

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

Luis Gutierrez

Ignorance, People, Different

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Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

Henry Louis Gates

College, Generations, Educated

"35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

Bob Filner

Hard Work, Immigration, Culture

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For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.

Gail Collins

Country, Airplane, Worry

"Is This a Government Which I See Before Me?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 5, 2013.

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If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and day out. And that is my commitment to you. We need immigration reform that will secure our borders, and punish employers who exploit immigrant labor; reform that finally brings the 12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows by requiring them to take steps to become legal citizens. We must assert our values and reconcile our principles as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. That is a priority I will pursue from my very first day.

Barack Obama

Commitment, Law, People

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

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By balancing the needs of families and employers, and by extending a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, our immigration policy serves its historic purpose. Freedom and opportunity is the cornerstone of American society, and immigrants continue to embody that freedom.

Spencer Abraham

Safe Haven, Opportunity, Immigration

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Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings, washed, combed, and in their Sunday best.... They are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality... They simply look out of place in black clothes and stiff collar, since clearly they belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Great Ice Age. These ox-like men are descendants of those who always stayed behind.

Edward Alsworth Ross

Sunday, Men, Clothes

"The Old World in the New". Book by Edward Alsworth Ross, edition.cnn.com. 1914.

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If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What you need to do is attack their benefits: no free education, no free subsidies, no citizenship, no birth-right citizenship.

Ron Paul

Free Education, Liberty, Immigration

Fox News-Google GOP Presidential debate at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Fla, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

Ed Koch

New York, Safe Haven, Thinking

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La Raza stands for 'The Race' - and they say so openly. They are a pro-Hispanic organization; I will call them a racist organization. They base their philosophy on race. They advocate for those minorities that fit within the category that they define as drives them. They are apologists for illegal immigrants - and we are funding them with your tax dollars in this administration through earmarks. It is outrageous. It's an in-your-face act on the part of this Congress.

Steve King

Philosophy, Race, Organization

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Legal immigrants play by the rules and come in under the law. They work, raise their families, pay taxes, and serve in the Armed Forces. ... Legal immigrants do not seek to cross the border, or overstay their visas. They come here the right way. ... And, by and large, they are here as the result of reunifying families.

Edward Kennedy

Law, Play, Immigration

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It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And to the millions of such prospective immigrants from poverty to prosperity, there is, rightly or wrongly, no place that looks more attractive than the United States. Given its head, and subject to no restrictions, this pressure will find its termination only when the levels of overpopulation and poverty in the United States are equal to those of the countries from which these people are now so anxious to escape.

George F. Kennan

Running, Country, People

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One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.

Barbara Jordan

Immigration, Benefits, Illegal

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...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal immigration. Immigrants come here illegally from source countries where conditions prevail that encourage or even compel them to leave. Attacking the causes of illegal migration is essential and will require international cooperation.

Barbara Jordan

Country, Immigration, United States

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

Luis Gutierrez

Loyalty, Community, Immigration

"An Illegal Alien's Guide to the Top Five Best Places to Live In America" by Bob Dane, www.foxnews.com. June 30, 2011.

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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.

Alan Greenspan

Home, House, Spurs

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Immigrants are exactly what America needs. They're what we need economically, and I think they're what we need morally... [They] revitalize America and get it back to its sense of confidence... All of these immigrants that come here help us with the work they do, they challenge us with new ideas and new perspectives, and they give us perspective.

Rudy Giuliani

Thinking, Ideas, America

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