We can now believe that it will never again shadow the gate to the American Nation with the twin barriers of prejudice and privilege.
When the earliest settlers poured into a wild continent there was no one to ask them where they came from.
The lesson of our times is sharp and clear in this movement of people from one land to another.
The dedication of America to our traditions as an asylum for the oppressed is going to be upheld.
I am asking the Department of State to seek through the Swiss Government immediately the agreement of the Cuban Governme...
The fairness of this standard is so self-evident that we may well wonder that it has not always been applied.
Once again, it stamps the mark of failure on a regime when many of its citizens voluntarily choose to leave the land of ...
Today, with my signature, this system is abolished.
This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.
Our next concern is with those who are imprisoned for political reasons.
Our beautiful America was built by a nation of strangers.