Brad Feld Quotes

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

'Til such time that the U.S. produces a continuous supply of home-grown talent, I want U.S. visa programs that support people from abroad come into the country.

The continued contributions of foreign students will be absolutely vital to maintaining American technological leadership.

The United States is in a fierce global competition to attract the world's best high-tech scientists and engineers -- most of whom are not white Christians.

It is so stupid to deport foreign students who come here, study and get their degrees here, and want to start up a company and employ people.

This battle for global talent is so important.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

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.

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

Free movement of people makes it easier for our universities to attract the best talent.

I want to make it very-very clear that Indian students are warmly welcome to U.K.

If we are serious about Global Britain, we must recognise that international students bring huge benefits to our universities, our local economies and our soft power.

After I did my graduation in mechanical engineering, I got a scholarship to go to the U.S. to do my master's. So I did that. I also worked there for a while. After my master's, I did a course in Film Appreciation.

We have such a huge demand for engineers in this country, both male and female. We need to find a way to do a better sales job on these young girls so we can get them interested in a field that is very rewarding.

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.

One of the strengths of the U.K. is its ability to attract very highly talented people from all over the places, but also their ability to send English people outside. So they're very brain circulation-oriented, and I do hope, even with Brexit, they will keep this asset they have.

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

A lot of people are trying to get out of their home country and think 'making it' is if you're able to work in another. For me... I'd be quite content to keep doing my own little films down there for the rest of my filmmaking career.

Shiv Nadar University was established in 2011, and our first batch graduated in 2015. The first batch mostly had engineering courses and a B.Sc. programme in Mathematics.

London's top colleges attract the best young talent from around the world; they're truly a national asset.

I would definitely love to finish school.

Germany, Austria, Switzerland - they have vocational training that's aligned to the needs of business and don't have youth unemployment problems.

I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. But I didn't get a good rank, so I got civil engineering.

I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.