Borders Quotes - Page 7

• By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.

  Spencer Bachus

  Home, Citizens, Mexico

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• Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.

  Scott Thompson

  Gay, Thinking, July

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• My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

  Donald Tusk

  People, Communist, Nazi

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• We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Believe, Play, India And Pakistan

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• Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

  Allen West

  Book, Law, Immigration

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• Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and the situation on the border will continue to be chaotic.

  Harry Reid

  Reality, Law, Gaps

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• It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.

  Michel Martelly

  Country, World, Care

  Interview with Tai Saint-Louis, allhiphop.com. August 6, 2010.

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• As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where – where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border.

  Sarah Palin

  Alaska, Air, America

  "Foreign Countries". Interview with Katie Couric, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2008.

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• That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land boundary that we have with - Canada. We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America where - where do they go? It's Alaska.

  Sarah Palin

  Powerful, Eye, America

  "The question is: Can Palin give a coherent answer?". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. September 26, 2008.

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• But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Mean, Technology

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• Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Real, Issues

  "Interview with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano". Interview with Neil Macdonald, www.cbc.ca. April 20, 2009.

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• Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Israel, People, Sides

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• Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs

  Gary Miller

  Years, Cost, Care

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• Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border of neighboring municipalities and exchanging them for good with ignorant common people, bringing back the good coins and debasing them again. More and more mints were established. Debasement accelerated in hyper-fashion until a halt was called after the subsidiary coins became practically worthless, and children played with them in the street, much as recounted in Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Ivan the Fool.

  Charles P. Kindleberger

  Fashion, Children, People

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• We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly. Let the owners of the immoveable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back.

  Theodor Herzl

  Country, Cheating, Believe

  Theodor Herzl (1997). “The Jews' State: A Critical English Translation”, p.91, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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• True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Believe, Finals

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• The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected

  John Culberson

  Real, People, Territory

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• The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents

  John Culberson

  Agents, Enough, Sheriffs

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• Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State

  John Culberson

  Unions, Citizens, Protection

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• The more people come together, the more borders will be opened and people and opinions get together, the more unrenouncable tolerance will be a fundamental part of our social life. Without tolerance there is no religious liberty, no freedom of conscience and no freedom of thought.

  Thomas Klestil

  Religious, People, Tolerance

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• I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Music, Three, Favors

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• In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and plant diseases], how do we protect our fisheries?

  Helen Clark

  Issues, Migrants, Disease

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• As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

  Spencer Bachus

  Jobs, Texas, Cities

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• So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind of cross-border trade to happen. So therefore the idea of borderlessness has a performative contradiction within it which has to be kept alive.

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  Hands, Order, Ideas

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• In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Ocean, Long

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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