Shahid Khan Quotes

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

I personally want to be in Toronto.

Brazil's got everything to be a great country for Brazilians and for immigrants.

Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

We need the immigrants.

We must, by every reasonable means, import our people, not in one branch of industry, not merely as farmers, as tillers of the soil, but we must bring out of every kind of industry, must develop the minds of the people and their energies.

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

The founding generation would be amazed. It would be surprised. I think it would be very impressed by what has happened since then in terms of our exploding population; in terms of the success of this country economically and otherwise.

What is America? Best brains in the world migrate to the U.S. If there are best brains, they will produce best results.

There's a huge Indian population here in Toronto. Also, Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Edmonton - Canada really is a great multicultural country.

We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we're really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it.

I love this province and I believe in a better future for Ontario.

I've seen massive changes in Ireland in my lifetime.

I have fought back against voices out there that want to curtail immigration, because immigration is critical to our success.

The city of Houston's been great to me.

If people have the choice of where they settle in Europe, then we cannot be surprised that they choose to come over here in search of a better life.

You have a huge demographic shift that's happening in America. Globally.

When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.

I know what it feels like to be a young family looking for opportunity in the United States.

I'm an Australian. And I'm speaking generally here, but Australians in general aren't patriotic or nationalistic. Our country was built by immigrants. So, by my experience, I've seen the way immigration has transformed nations. They are the key people who quite literally build civilizations, be it culturally or musically.

My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.

I saw so many opportunities in the U.S. because I knew that I could make a living doing things I could never do in Romania.