Ilhan Omar Quotes

I saw so many opportunities in the U.S. because I knew that I could make a living doing things I could never do in Romania.

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.

We all should be proud of the United States. For those of us that came from the Dominican, we've been able to come here, work, make money and become somebody in our lives. We've gotten a huge opportunity from the U.S.

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to be free. This nation, this idea called America, was and always will be a new world -- our new world.

You’re twice as likely to realize the American Dream if you’re growing up in Canada rather than the U.S.

When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty.

I say to people that Los Angeles is a city of America's hope and its promise. It's a city where we come from every corner of the Earth here to make the American dream happen.

When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

A lot of these guys come to America and baseball was their ticket to give their family a better life... They're incredibly grateful for the opportunity to play this game.

When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.

My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America.

It's worth remembering that immigrants come to this country to work, they don't come to get handouts.

For millions on the outside looking in, this is where they want to live - America.

Millions of people have come to the United States in pursuit of liberty and a better way of life. They contribute to this tremendous melting pot and embrace the opportunities which are presented for them and their families.

People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

I came to this country when I was 12 years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.