Duncan D. Hunter Quotes

To become an American is a process which resembles a conversion. It is not so much a new country that one adopts as a new creed.

Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new beginnings.

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

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.

The making of an American begins at that point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

We [native-born] could not choose, but they [immigrants] could and did choose to be Americans.

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.

No encouragement must be given to social and political organizations or methods which perpetuate in this country foreign ideas and customs. An Irish-American, a German-American, or a French-American vote is an intolerable anomaly.

I was born in the U.S. This is my country.

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.

When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody.

If you've never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a room full of people who can really appreciate what I was lucky enough to grow up with, simply by being born in Brooklyn.

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

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

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

I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish.

When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.

I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.