Vicente Fox Quotes

Immigration—legal and illegal—has shaped and will continue to shape California's destiny.

Immigration makes losers and winners.

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

Immigrants everywhere have been a wonderful bonus for the host countries. Sometimes it amazes me how anti-immigration feelings arise in Europe or the United States, when immigration has been wonderful for business.

Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

This is nothing less than a national tragedy…. It is time to consider these refugees arriving from Poland and elsewhere purely on their merits as migrants and in an unsentimental light. In the last 50 years these people have swarmed all over Europe, coming principally from Armenia, Russia and the Balkans. We should remember that they are European neither by race, standards, nor culture. They are, in fact, an Eastern people. In 2000 years no one but Britain has been successfully able to absorb them, and for the most part they owe loyalty and allegiance to none.

We need the immigrants.

Why can't you ask people if they want more or fewer Germans or Belgians or Moroccans?

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.

Immigration isn't always good for the economy or jobs.

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Immigration is a sensitive topic.

I'm a big supporter of immigration.

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

Nearly all of us came here [Maine] as immigrants.

Any immigration policy carries costs and benefits and that policies differ in the ways in which they distribute these costs and benefits among the native population.

There's an overdose of foreigners.

The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.

The U. S.'s moral responsibility to accept immigrants is not unlimited.

[There are] many vicious and inconvertible elements [within the] multitude of foreign immigrants.