Jacob Zuma Quotes

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

There's an overdose of foreigners.

The Melting Pot

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

Immigration risks infiltration by influences subversive of the American way of life.

Discrimination still exists. Some people feel that their own beliefs are being threatened. Some are unhappy about unfamiliar cultures. They all need to be reassured that there is so much to be gained by reaching out to others; that diversity is indeed a strength and not a threat.

There was no question of the racial superiority of northwestern Europeans or of the racial inferiority of southeastern Europeans. It was simply a question as to which of these two groups of aliens is, as a whole, best fitted by tradition, political background, customs, education, and habits of thought to adjust itself to American institutions and to American social and economic conditions--to become, in short, an adaptable, homogeneous and helpful element in American national life.

Spain is not a racist country.

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

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

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

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting.

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

Everybody came from somewhere here in New York.

New Americans are not to be feared as strangers. They are to be welcomed as neighbors.

There is less and less of France abroad, and more that is foreign in France.

It is our turn to guard our heritage from Mongol, and Persian and Moor, before we become engulfed in a limitless foreign sea.

We don't have anything against Muslims. But we don't want minarets. The minaret is a symbol of a political and aggressive Islam; it's a symbol of Islamic law. The minute you have minarets in Europe, it means Islam will have taken over.

Immigration makes losers and winners.

We have too many foreigners in France. Diversity is not working.