Foreign Birth Quotes

I was born in Taiwan and came to the United States when I was 2.

Both my parents came into the United States from Mexico.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.

Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.

Where is the true-hearted American whose cheek does not tingle with shame to see our highest and most courted foreign missions filled by men of foreign birth to the exclusion of the native-born?

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.