(May) Biden to #KeHuyQuan: ‘you were famous in the 1980s, then people counted you out… only to finally make it big… Hell, I know something about that, too’ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/08/remarks-by-president-biden-at-screening-of-american-born-chinese-in-celebration-of-aanhpi-heritage-month/
‘your time did come… by the way, a government led by… Kamala Harris, an Indian American’
‘Joan Shingang- — Shin- — I’m — I’m going to pronounce it wrong — Shangaka- — -kawawa [Shigekawa]’
‘building on this legacy is a show you’ll see tonight: “American Born Chinese,” based on a graphic novel. I just met the author. Gene, thanks for being here’
‘just got back from Ireland… going back and seeing my relatives, who I hadn’t met before. They go back all the way to 1157 … in eastern Ireland… Louth province’
‘all the immigrants who came here came for a reason. They were trying to escape something, in large part’
‘We Irish were escaping because we were Catholics and we were being persecuted. Well, guess what? I’m standing here as President’
‘We have… the biggest #Diwali, #LunarNewYear, and #Eid celebrations on a scale that the White House has never seen before… from the White House, it is my honor to host “#AmericanBornChinese”’
Biden: immigrants generally escaping something
Also Biden: block refugees
The ol’ ladder-pull