James P. Gorman Quotes

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.

It is important that those that do come to settle in the U.K. gain a sense of British identity and share British values. We have always attracted the best and brightest.

When we were growing up we were all asked to accept ourselves as British citizens, and I still hold on to this idea that multicultural Britain is possible.

You can be of any ethnic background or faith and be a Canadian if you share fundamental Canadian values, learn about our history and culture, and integrate in our society.

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

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

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

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

I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

I was born here. My children were born here. What the hell do I have to do to be called an American?

Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.

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

The modern idea of citizenship goes some way to accommodating the tension between solidarity and diversity. Citizenship is not an ethnic, blood-and-soil concept, but a more abstract political idea - implying equal legal, political and social rights (and duties) for people inhabiting a given national space.

New Americans are not to be feared as strangers. They are to be welcomed as neighbors.

One of these days every person in Canada will be a Canadian.

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

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

We don't hate Muslims, but they have to integrate.

My son Saif was born here, he may even one day play for Germany.

If you want to come to this country, the American people are the greatest people on earth and will welcome you with open arms.

In other countries, being from somewhere else is celebrated. But not in America.

What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.

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