Syrian Refugees Quotes

• Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

  Donald Trump

  Horse, Trojans, Trojan Horse

  Sixth Republican top-tier debate, www.cbsnews.com. January 15, 2016.

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• When you talk about humanitarian, it doesn't only mean to offer the people the help, the food, their necessary needs for their life. The first thing, if you ask the Syrian refugees, for example, the first thing they want is to go back to their country.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.

  James Cameron

  Growing Up, War, Stress

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• In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

  Marco Rubio

  Refugee Crisis, Community, Fleeing

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.

  Donald Trump

  Horse, Isis, May

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Hillary Clinton supports open borders, amnesty and even wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Support, Borders

  "Trump team dodges and ducks". "The Lead with Jake Tapper", www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• In fact, in Indiana we suspended the Syrian refugee program in the wake of the terrorist attack. We have no higher priority than the safety and security of the people of this country, and Donald Trump is right to articulate that view.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Views, People

  "The Republican Ticket" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2016.

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• I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Country, Children, Should

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.

  Decca Aitkenhead

  Home, Thinking, Refugee Crisis

  "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I will suspend immigration from regions comprised of radical Islamic terrorists, including the suspension of the Syrian refugee program which is taking in thousands and thousands of people that we have no idea where they come from, no idea who they are.

  Donald Trump

  Islamic, Ideas, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Crooked Hillary [Clinton] also wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees to pour into our country .

  Donald Trump

  Country, Want, Clinton

  Source: time.com

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• The first thing Syrian refugees want is to be able to live within Syria. That means help, humanitarian help, the way we understand it, food, medical care, any other, let's say, basics for the daily life.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mean, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• [Vladimir] Putin supporting Bashar al-Assad, helping with the Syrian refugee crisis and, I think for any republican, he [Donald Trump] has got to stop saying this, because I was with him. I was with him and he said that, it was like, I'm out. I'm out. It's too crazy.

  John McCain

  Crazy, Thinking, Refugee Crisis

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Donald Trump has called for extreme vetting for people coming into this country so that we don't bring people into the United States who are hostile to our bill of rights freedoms, who are hostile to the American way of life, but I will say, Donald Trump and I are committed to suspending the Syrian refugee program and programs on immigration from areas of the world that have been compromised by terrorism.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Rights, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I met with many of - a number of [Syrian] refugees in Berlin the other day, and I was struck by how educated, intelligent, and patriotic they are. They want to go back. They love their country. And there are so many of them still in Jordan and in refugee camps in Lebanon and in Turkey, that if you could create the climate within which they could begin to come back, I believe there is such a history of secularism within Syria, even tolerance within Syria, that if we can deal with ISIL, yes. That's the key. And with ISIL there, not a chance.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Believe, Patriotic

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• President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, President, Vets

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need to open our ears. The American people are not whispering to us. They are screaming to us. And they're screaming to us that it's our job to actually make this government work.It's so dysfunctional under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's so ineffective. It's so ineffectual that the American people say, we don't trust them to do anything anymore. So I'm not going to let Syrian refugees, any Syrian refugees in this country.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Jobs, Government

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees without mandating any background checks whatsoever. Now we've seen what happened in San Bernardino. When you are letting people in, when the FBI can't vet them, it puts American citizens at risk.

  Ted Cruz

  Eight, People, Risk

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2015.

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• As far as the refugees are concerned, it's not that America doesn't want to accept refugees.t's that we may not be able to, because this is an issue we have to be 100 percent right on. If we allow 9,999 Syrian refugees into the United States, and all of them are good people, but we allow one person in who's an ISIS killer - we just get one person wrong, we've got a serious problem.

  Marco Rubio

  America, Issues, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Chris Christie who proposes accepting Syrian refugee orphans under the age of 5 because they may not be vetted well enough. You can`t trust them. The 5-year-olds might it be terrorists. After all, they`re from Syria.

  Rachel Maddow

  Years, Age, May

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