Ted Lieu Quotes

This is the America we know because we built it.

America is a country defined by a set of ideas, and when people choose to accept those ideas, they should be able to become Americans, as fully so as any - and perhaps more so than most - regardless of how recently they or their ancestors arrived upon our shores. This is the true American tradition, which as conservatives we must defend.

We have room in America for people who are willing to work. I am not ready, nor will I ever be, ready to tear down the Statue of Liberty ...

Like generations before us, we have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom. This is the everlasting dream of America.

I believe in the American dream. I don't want anyone to take advantage of it, and I don't want anyone to ruin it, especially people who are not grateful to be here, who seemingly hate us and call us racists.

I appreciate America as the land of opportunity. It's the land where you can see your dreams come true if you work hard. My parents are American.

America is a flawed land but a great one indeed.

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.

I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.

I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

The fundamental, longtime American attitude has been to ask not where a person comes from but what are his personal qualities. On this basis men and women migrated from every quarter of the globe. By their hard work and their enormously varied talents they hewed a great nation out of a wilderness. By their dedication to liberty and equality they created a society reflecting man's most cherished ideas.

America Was Promises

The dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in America, but its promise exists for all who come to our shores

That’s one of the wonders of this country. Eventually, we live up to our ideals.

America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

We have overcome economic devastation, defeated mighty oppressors, and lifted up generation after generation of Americans. We can - and we will - do it again. For that is our birthright as members of the American family - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, immigrant, or descendant of the Founding Fathers themselves.

As Americans, we are proud that we are a country that people run to, not from.

America is the greatest country on Earth - and when people vote with their feet, they come here.

We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.

I'm glad I get to live in the United States of America.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me - we're a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we're all created equal.