Political Quotes

“I represent a district with two fine universities--the University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado State University. Both have excellent graduate programs--engineering, physics, environmental engineering, the biological sciences, you name it. Like many of our institutions of higher education, a high number of students there are foreign nationals who are studying under student visas. Under our current immigration policy, Mr. Speaker, at our public State institutions, we provide this world-class education for people who fill a need in the economy--they are going to be great engineers; they are going to be great mathematicians; they are going to be great computer scientists. Guess what? They graduate with a master's, and they graduate with a Ph.D., and what do we tell them? Oh. Go back to another country, and compete against us. Compete against us. We are telling them to compete against us. How does that make sense, Mr. Speaker? What we need to do is to provide a way--and the Senate bill and H.R. 15 do this--for people who graduate with advanced degrees in these fields to be able to stay here, keeping the jobs here, because guess what? Today's companies don't care where the jobs are. You can be a computer programmer in India. You can be a computer programmer in France. You can be a computer programmer here. Out of convenience, we would rather have you here, but the job is going to follow you. It is not the other way around. In addition, if we act with H.R.…”