Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting.

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

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.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.

We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

The Melting Pot

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

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 are a nation of immigrants.

That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

I spend more time in New York than the Dominican. I play here, I live here, so why not become a citizen?

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.