Maxime Bernier Quotes

We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels.

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.

I am against the policy which would promote the entry of immigrants into Europe, which cannot accept them.

What people want - and they will get - is control of our own system, with a lower and sustainable level of net migration. And, above all, that has to mean one thing: an end to freedom of movement.

We should return to Howard-era immigration levels in NSW.

We believe in immigration, but we don't believe in mass immigration.

Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.

At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and supports protection of national security.

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

The U. S.'s moral responsibility to accept immigrants is not unlimited.

We might have some problems with some countries. Why should we not take into consideration the country of origin [in making immigration decisions]?

… we are answerable to an electorate which is uncomfortable with destabilizing mass immigration.

I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.

I have... been disturbed by the negative tone of the debate over immigration... there is a rising crescendo of opinion from columnists and politicians saying we should reduce our immigration intake.

UKIP believe that immigration can be an extremely positive thing. But it has to be controlled.

I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the situation in France, it must stop.

The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration.

As a Democrat, it's easy for me to talk about immigration. For my Republican friends, they could get criticized from the Right in their party.

We must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it, even if we sometimes have to build a wall.

We've been agreeing on a strict immigration policy to Norway for a long time. It's supposed to be fair, but it's supposed to be strict.

My understanding, when I think of immigration, is like... you know, this country was built on immigrants: the German, the Polish, the Italian, the Jewish, the Russians, the Eastern Europeans. So, all these people came in, and I don't know who decided like, 'No, that's it! There's a cap on it! No more people.'

We should be able to have a conversation about immigration; we should be able to have a conversation about what skills we want to have in the U.K. and whether we need to go out of the U.K. in order to get them to boost our economy, and I don't think we should have a situation where we can't talk about it.