Quotes About Citizenship

To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen.

My wife's from Canada, and we're Canadian citizens.

My own wife is from the Philippines and came here legally to this country, and there are a lot of people that want to be part of this nation, and I want them to be part of this nation.

But Akshay Kumar is not even an Indian citizen. He holds a Canadian passport and Wikipedia describes him as an Indian-born Canadian actor.

Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.

Radical Islamic jihadists have a long-term vision. And if they have to stay in Europe to obtain a citizenship, to ultimately travel to the United States, and if it takes them five years or ten years, they're okay with that. History has proven that.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

It seems to me that any reason for people getting more active in running or taking part in politics and government I think is just terrific.

The world's moving; people move around the world. A lot of people coming to this country have terrific talent to bring to the country - not just in business and in the professions but in Parliament as well. And we need some failsafe system so that, right at the outset, they are aware that they have to drop any other citizenship.

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you.

I would never call people that are born in this country who are from Mexico 'terror babies.'

People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.

Again and again since 9/11, terror attacks in the West have been carried out by second-generation Muslims who are citizens of the very country they are attacking.

The Republic will not be destroyed by terrorism.

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

For years, America has helped protect against terrorist attacks by telling Americans, 'If you see something, say something.' The same should go for protecting our elections against foreign interference.

Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent resident, not by recent immigrants or by refugees. So tamping down immigration won't fix the real issue, which is 'homegrown' terrorism.

A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists' nationality.

Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.

What would happen in the U.S. to terrorists who are not citizens? In less than 24 hours, they would be rounded up, taken to the airport and expelled.

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.