Jacinda Ardern Quotes

Our nation relies on immigrants.

Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in India or from Pakistan, principally from Kashmir.

We are indeed a nation of immigrants. People who choose to come to America have always been one of our greatest sources of national vitality. They keep our economy strong and our communities dynamic. They are some of our greatest patriots.

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

For the tidal wave of new immigrants Canada is more a land for the realization of private dreams than for maintaining a ... compact between founding races. No common identity was provided for the millions of new Canadian immigrants other than a week vision of mutual multi-cultural indifference.

Our country is a country where immigration is history and it is a country where immigration is destiny.

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

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

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

Every immigrant, rich or poor, must add to our wealth and strength.

We are a nation of immigrants. It is immigrants who brought to this land the skills of their hands and brains to make it a beacon of opportunity and of hope for all men.

We can’t pretend that we are not a nation of immigrants. We always have been. It’s been our greatest strength… The majority of babies born in this country are the children of immigrants and minorities …. No other nation on earth can handle these demographics.

I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.

European countries simply do not have the ideological framework the United States has in the shape of the 'American dream' that has helped to absorb successfully wave after wave of immigration to the States, including Muslim Americans who are well integrated into American society. There is no analogous French dream or German dream.

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.

America is a country of immigrants. It's what makes America unique.

That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

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

I am not against migration. It is simply pragmatic to restrict migration, while at the same time encouraging integration and fighting discrimination. I support the idea of the free movement of goods, people, money and jobs in Europe.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Although it requires some adjustment by those already here, immigration has made the U.S.A. the most prosperous nation on Earth.