Political Quotes

“this debate on the bill of the Senator from Arizona and his opponents, or those who would significantly change it and limit it, is a debate between optimists and pessimists about the American condition. Senator Abraham's proposal stems from the proposition that we are in a society so dynamic, changing so rapidly, with so many new technologies on each and every day, that we can do nothing but benefit by recruiting into that economy the most highly skilled people from dozens of nations around the world who seek to make their contribution to humanity as a part of the United States of America as against the nations from which they come, hobbled by societal and governmental restrictions. A large number of the men and women on whom this battle is being waged have been educated here in the United States and have already begun to become a part of our culture. It is the theory of this bill, a theory borne out by the experience of H-1B so far, that not only are these men and women who seek to become Americans contributing to their own well-being and to the progress of our society but are, in fact, creating jobs for others.”