Christine Gregoire Quotes

Immigrants bring growth, creativity, and opportunity to America. They are the cornerstone of much of our great nation's cultural heritage.

The Conservative party believes Canada is stronger for being able to welcome people from all over the world.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

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.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

All nations that are liberal of naturalization toward strangers are fit for empire.

We should accept diversity and pluralism and learn to live in them, and learn how to grow in them, without losing our identity and compromising ourselves

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

I come from a nation of peoples drawn from all around the world.

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

Make the strangers welcome in this land, let them keep their languages and customs, for weak and fragile is the realm which is based on a single language or on a single set of customs

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.

This is one country. It has become that way because all people who have come here had an equal right to develop their talent.

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.

The question really isn't whether I'm American, Russian, Iranian, Azerbaijani, or anything else. I've been shaped by all these people and cultures and I feel quite comfortable among all of them

… a polyglot boarding house

I think it's important to be reminded that that's what this country is comprised of - people from other countries.

In Florida, we're the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state.

America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.

My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state. We have the sons and daughters of every, of people from every planet, of every country on earth.

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

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.