Visa Quotes - Page 7

• I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

  Ian Mckellen

  Writing, People, Trying

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• Beyond violating our laws, visa overstays, pose - and they really are a big problem, pose a substantial threat to national security.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Problem, Bigs

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on.

  Vladimir Putin

  Creating, Issues, Islands

  Source: www.rt.com

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• As regards humanitarian issues and how to handle them, that was the Prime Minister's [Shinzō Abe] initiative. He brought the matter up at our last meeting in Lima and asked me straightforwardly whether we would agree to let Japanese citizens travel on a visa-free basis, resolve the issue in such a way as to enable them to visit the South Kurils, visit their native areas. I said at once that it was quite possible.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Citizens, Matter

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] also highlighted the need to address general humanitarian issues. We already mentioned one of these issues: visa-free travel by Japanese citizens to the South Kuril Islands.

  Vladimir Putin

  Islands, Issues, Needs

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I never thought to stay here without papers. I had visa. I travel every few months back to the country, to Slovenia, to stamp the visa. I came back. I apply for the green card.

  Melania Trump

  Country, Cards, Paper

  "Melania Trump defends Donald by saying she immigrated legally. But for models like her, it’s easier" by Janell Ross, www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2016.

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• George W. Bush was interviewed by NBC. He was on the Today show and he was asked about President Trump's visa suspension. They asked Bush what he thinks about this, and if I'm not mistaken, I don't think he mentioned [Donald] Trump by name, but he said "I wish our immigration system were more welcoming," is what he said.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Nbc, Names

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't get my bliss by listening over and over to people in the street thinking, "Boy, is it that good?" Even though every time I hear it that's what I think. But I get it in human situations. There is this little voice that is going, "The reason you're able to enjoy your life now is that you made it in rock'n'roll and people are giving you free visas all over the place. Dude, you are being spoiled".

  Iggy Pop

  Boys, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Notebook, Christian, Names

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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