Kris Kobach Quotes

Year by year, we, the citizens of Russia, are getting fewer and fewer…. We face the threat of becoming a senile nation.

It is entirely reasonable to want to know how many citizens and non-citizens there are in the United States.

Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new beginnings.

I'm a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I'm a citizen, I was born here. I'm American. At the same time, like most first-generation kids, I have this other identity to another country back home, which is India.

I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

I have always found it jarring to encounter people born and raised in, say, Switzerland, who are denied its citizenship and still considered Algerians or Turks.

It is essential for our national security to know who resides within our borders.

France can certainly accommodate foreign people on its soil long-term, those with foreign citizenship... as long as they respect French laws and French values, which is often a problem on the immigration issue. It's not really a problem with Israel on this topic.

Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I'm jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.

I'm asking the Israelis to choose their nationality. It doesn't mean that if they don't choose French nationality, they have to leave.

This is a full country. I think 16 million Dutchmen are about enough.

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

The only people who should play for England are English people.

I'm happy being Canadian and I'm proud of where I come from. So I'll keep my passport.

I became a citizen after 9/11.

It is important that those that do come to settle in the U.K. gain a sense of British identity and share British values. We have always attracted the best and brightest.

I am more South African than Pakistani now. It's a great country, and I have met so many nice people.

I am just grateful I have a British passport and a country here.

I had my own ups and downs in getting Indian citizenship. But, ultimately I got it and I am happy about it. I like India. My love is here. I am a proud Indian.

I have family who are British citizens and who want to be citizens of the world and citizens of the E.U.

My son Saif was born here, he may even one day play for Germany.

I am so proud to call myself Canadian! Thank you, Canada, for welcoming me with open arms!

We made the U.K. our home, and I'm lucky enough that I get to call myself British and have such great support at home.

You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall.