Helmut Schmidt Quotes

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

It is not always easy to change country.

I used to say to my mom and dad all the time, 'I'm going to move to America.'

My parents were among the first families from their area to leave Nigeria and come to America, the land of the free.

I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

Little America

When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.

I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.

Emigration is always a difficulty.

My family immigrated to the States in 1981, when I was 14.

The biggest change of my life was coming to America.

When someone decides to come to the U.S., he knows what he's getting into.

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

All I want to do is to go to America, get married and start a new life.

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

Moving to a new country is always difficult, but the fact my dad and my sister came to live with me was a huge help. That made things easier.

There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

Work aside, I think would have ended up in the U.S. because I like being here a lot. I really do.

Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children.

I did take a huge leap moving countries. People have no idea how huge it is to relocate overseas. Finding your new life alone is enormous, and then starting a new career in Hollywood is so big.

Immigration policy should be based on what is good for America, not what is good for Mexico. Immigration to America should not be the safety valve for Mexico.