Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Already we're seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.

Am immigration policy based on family unification is not in the best interest of our country. We should be looking for the most skilled and talented.

the skilled immigrants will be long gone. They’ll be back home building the next Googles and Intels in other countries, and we will wake up 5 years from now and wonder how we let this happen.

Britain’s efforts to restrict immigration have become “a very large obstacle” to hiring the best scientists.

Everyone in the tech business, from Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr on down, says that the ruination of the industry, if not the entire country, will come from the inability to hire more brainiacs from countries like China and India.

I'm very pleased when the smartest people come [to the U.S.] and almost never pleased when the very bottom of the mental barrel comes in.

Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

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?

There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come here, get well educated, and then are required to leave... This is a factor in income inequality.

African migrants to the global North are unusually well educated. In 2000, while the continent’s proportion of skilled workers was only 4%, 30.9% of all immigrants from the continent were skilled workers. In other words, the ‘brain drain’ is exceptionally severe for Africa. For example, the African born population in the U.S. currently claims the highest levels of education of any group in the country, foreign born or native born. In 2000, among the African-born residents aged 25 and above, 49.3 per cent had a bachelor’s degree or more as compared to 25.6 per cent for the native born population and 25.8 per cent for the foreign born population as a whole. The irony of people from the least educated continent in the world having the highest levels of education in the world’s richest country is quite striking.

Canada reserves 35% of its immigration slots for skills they need. We reserve 6%. We educate the (foreign) doctors, but don’t give them a green card.

Governor Romney, how many fewer college degrees would it take to make America more competitive?

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.

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

Legal immigration should emphasize merit and meeting the needs of the U.S., including specific unmet workforce needs.

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.

Put simply, the U.K. must remain a hub for international talent.

It certainly seems to me we would like to bring in the best and the brightest individuals here to participate in this republic.

We want the NHS to be able to recruit the doctors and nurses it needs. And we want British businesses to be free to hire the best workers from anywhere in the world.

I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

I'm passionately committed to making sure our world-leading institutions can attract the brightest and the best. But a student immigration system that treats every student and university as equal only punishes those we should want to help.

Legal immigration is good for America, if it's controlled and structured via the legal process, of course. But the problem is the system we have in place right now is broken. For example, it is completely family based which means that it's based not on what you can do or what talent you have or what merit you bring or what job you could fill, but rather on whether you know someone who already lives here.

I think that we should give visas to people - green cards, rather, to people who graduate with skills that we need. People around the world with accredited degrees in science and math get a green card stapled to their diploma, come to the U.S. of A. We should make sure our legal system works.

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.

The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.