Julie Bishop Quotes

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

Our first challenge in America today is simply to open our eyes to these changes, to discover America anew, and to explore the many ways in which the new immigration has changed the religious landscape of our cities and towns, our neighborhoods and schools.

Why can't you ask people if they want more or fewer Germans or Belgians or Moroccans?

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

This is nothing less than a national tragedy…. It is time to consider these refugees arriving from Poland and elsewhere purely on their merits as migrants and in an unsentimental light. In the last 50 years these people have swarmed all over Europe, coming principally from Armenia, Russia and the Balkans. We should remember that they are European neither by race, standards, nor culture. They are, in fact, an Eastern people. In 2000 years no one but Britain has been successfully able to absorb them, and for the most part they owe loyalty and allegiance to none.

We [native-born] could not choose, but they [immigrants] could and did choose to be Americans.

Our own temperate blood, schooled to self-possession and the measured conduct of self-government, is receiving a constant infusion and yearly experiencing a partial corruption of foreign blood.

America is the result of the amalgam of three people: Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans

The Melting Pot

People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture...

We can't restore our civilization with someome else's babies.

The world's moving; people move around the world. A lot of people coming to this country have terrific talent to bring to the country - not just in business and in the professions but in Parliament as well. And we need some failsafe system so that, right at the outset, they are aware that they have to drop any other citizenship.

Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.

We're a nation of immigrants.

We are a nation of immigrants.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.