"No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America."

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Source : "New Year, Same Priority: 2014 Is the Year for Immigration Reform" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

Marc Veasey

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“I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.”
“As with anything creative, change is inevitable.”
“All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.”
“History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.”
“The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.”
“I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.”

Source : "Anna Sui, Founder, Anna Sui Corp". Interview with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 4, 2006.
“A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.”
“One of the most durable successes of the war on poverty was to dramatically reduce the number of elderly poor in America. That's still true today. But, by contrast, child poverty has shot up over the last few years: A decade ago, about 16 percent of children in America were poor - which is a shockingly high percentage. But it's not as shocking as today, when we see that 22 percent of kids live in poverty.”

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