Greg Gutfeld Quotes

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.

We shall be inconsistent with ourselves if, after boasting of having opened an asylum for the oppressed of all nations … we make the terms of admission to the full enjoyment of that asylum so hard as is now proposed.

Since its very beginnings, America has been a refuge for the persecuted— a “city on the hill” beckoning the victims of political, religious, ethnic, and other forms of repression.

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.

Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.

I think it fortunate for the United States to have become the asylum for so many virtuous patriots of different denominations.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Make it [the United States] the home of the skillful, the industrious, the fortunate, the happy, as well as the asylum of the distressed ... Let but this, our celebrated goddess, Liberty, stretch forth her fair hand toward the people of the old world—tell them to come, and bid them welcome.

The dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in America, but its promise exists for all who come to our shores

For a round hundred years it was a national ideal that the United States should be the asylum for the poor and the oppressed of every land. This very early came to be known as the "traditional" American attitude towards immigration.

America looked like the land of the future, separated by an ocean from the misfortunes, follies, and crimes of Europe.

Albemarle County as a “common Sanctuary for all our runaway servants. There is a total Absence of Religion. It is the “sinke of America, the Refuge of Renegadoes.

I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom.

As Americans, we are proud that we are a country that people run to, not from.

Our nation is built on a proud history of providing refuge for the poor, persecuted, and disenfranchised.

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.

Every year, thousands of immigrants, asylum seekers and migrants assume great hardships to find safety in America. They choose our country because they see the United States as a land of justice, as a place of safety, and a beacon of hope.

I play for the America that embraces refugees from war-torn nations, for the America that welcomes all people who want the chance to experience the American Dream, for the America that appreciates the contributions from all the people it shelters.

America was once the safest place. I used to ask our people why they were going there. They used to say America is the safest place.

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...

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

I have a very good impression of the United States, and I am very excited to fight here.