Amber Rudd Quotes

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

The continued contributions of foreign students will be absolutely vital to maintaining American technological leadership.

The United States is in a fierce global competition to attract the world's best high-tech scientists and engineers -- most of whom are not white Christians.

It is so stupid to deport foreign students who come here, study and get their degrees here, and want to start up a company and employ people.

My concern is that all these people never want to come back to France…. These people are the gold mine of our economy and for our society for the future.

In the U.S., we are doing ourselves tremendous damage by having such bad immigration policies. We have built the best educational institutions on the planet, and we educate the brightest minds from all countries, and then we kick them out when they want to stay here. I think well-planned and well-executed immigration reforms, especially for students, would be one of the biggest drivers of entrepreneurship and innovation—something as simple as allowing the bright minds we’ve educated to stay and contribute to the American economy.

Foreign students... big part of our economy.

One of the strengths of the U.K. is its ability to attract very highly talented people from all over the places, but also their ability to send English people outside. So they're very brain circulation-oriented, and I do hope, even with Brexit, they will keep this asset they have.

To stay attractive and competitive, the U.K. should take measures to ensure that skilled talent keeps flowing in and out the country.

We need people from all around the world. We need entrepreneurs, we need students that we're educating in our schools that we then throw out and we should make sure they can stay here. If we don't have the new flux of immigrants, nobody's going to create the jobs for the Americans who are currently out of work.

America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.

Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.

Invite colonists from all the other nations of Europe.

There has never been an immigrant group that has not contributed to America more than it has received.

The most important import the United States has ever had has been human talent.

The energy in Silicon Valley is because of the very talented engineers immigrating from around the world, especially Indians and Chinese. They are the best engineers, and Japan doesn't have enough of them.

Migration powers economic growth, reduces inequalities, and connects diverse societies. Yet it is also a source of political tensions and human tragedies.

The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.

If people are coming into the country to add an extra dimension, to bring skills and expertise with them, we have always been open to that.

Australia's migrant communities have built the country. It has been one of the key pillars of Australia's prosperity over generations.

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.