I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.
The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.
I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.
I'm child of immigrants.
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