Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

My parents were immigrants.

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.

I am a permanent legal resident of this country, I was born in Korea; my parents came to America for a better life for our family, I've lived here nearly my whole life, and even though I consider myself through and through Korean and American, I guess when it comes down to it, anyone can take away my identity. It doesn't belong to me.

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

I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.

The world's moving; people move around the world. A lot of people coming to this country have terrific talent to bring to the country - not just in business and in the professions but in Parliament as well. And we need some failsafe system so that, right at the outset, they are aware that they have to drop any other citizenship.

I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.

I'm child of immigrants.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

I live in the U.S., but I'm from Brazil.

I was born in Canada, but both my parents are Syrian - they moved to Canada in the '70s, and I was born in a 100-percent-Arab house.

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.

America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.