Gary Bauer Quotes

I will keep all our young people from having to abandon their towns and families for the other side of the border

A Dominican kitchen worker in New York City can make more money than a Dominican doctor working in the Dominican Republic. Why should anyone want to stay?

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in ... and how many want out.

In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.

I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Richer people tend to be happier than poor people, and people in poor countries tend to be less happy than people in rich countries.

I don't think any of us ran for the United States Senate to preside over the lowering of the American standard of living.

The Latin American people have become fed up with the 500 year siesta and the lack of opportunity. So they come to the United States. But that is because the leaders of their countries do not do anything to improve the situation…. When Mexican President Fox took office he observed that over half the Mexican population was living in poverty and that he was unlikely to make significant changes during his remaining term in office. That was a sophisticated way of saying to the Mexicans, “Go to the United States!”

It is much better for a poor man in this country than it is in Ireland. But if the Irish immigrants knew how hard they would have to work in the first 6 months in this county, few would ever come here.

You’re twice as likely to realize the American Dream if you’re growing up in Canada rather than the U.S.

What everyone has always wanted in this country, what most came here for, was to get away from all those others who smell bad, are sleeping in a shanty, and are eating fatback and are going to loaf tomorrow because there is no job to go to.

Donald Trump's own mother Mary escaped the bone-crushing poverty of Scotland's remote Outer Hebrides for the promise of New York in 1929.

If I only wanted money and a comfortable life, I would have stayed in Ukraine.

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.

We didn't have shoes until we came over to America.

My grandfather on my dad's side was the first in our family to settle in the U.K. He came from Pakistan on his own in the '60s and worked in a cotton mill in Bolton, earning enough to bring over the rest of his family. My dad, Shah, was only about eight when he came to this country. Like most immigrants, he has a fierce work ethic.

My family was quite poor, and the NHS was recruiting people from abroad to do psychiatric nursing. It was the only hope I had to leave Hong Kong.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

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

When I was coming to this country, I heard about its promises.

If you really look at it, I have done the 'American Dream' that people have died on boats to come here to live.

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.

Integrating is easier when you have a job in Canada.

I left India for U.S. with Rs 2,000 only in hand, where I have gone through some very difficult times before entering into wrestling.