Paul Keating Quotes

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.

Make the strangers welcome in this land, let them keep their languages and customs, for weak and fragile is the realm which is based on a single language or on a single set of customs

The Conservative party believes Canada is stronger for being able to welcome people from all over the world.

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

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

Australia will be a multiracial nation in the future.

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

Assimilation is what has made America great.

My audience here in America is so eclectic. It's a real mix of people, which is great. Like what I was doing with Culture Club - world music, multiculturalism - not defining everything in terms of sexuality or color. It was about everyone coming together and being part of something.

America has been so welcoming to me.

In Florida, we're the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state.

You make America great by making America available to a wide variety of people.

I don't think Italy is a racist country, because there are so many immigrants.

London thrives because it is one of the most open cities in the world, but Brexit is shutting the door on talented people coming to live and work here - the people we need when we get sick, the ones we see on the Tube, our friends and neighbours. Even worse, it has made London a less tolerant place.

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

England really is at the forefront of being a melting pot of all cultures.

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges...

It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

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

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

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.