“No matter what Tucker Carlson tried - no matter what logic, the law, no matter what he tried - he could not disabuse this student of the idea that we can't survive as a country doing that and that the country must have borders and that a country must determine who gets in and who does not.” DoeIdeasCountryMatterLawStudentsLogicNo Matter WhatDetermineBordersCarlson Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.” PeopleExampleStrangeChineseBordersKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanVolcanoesBirthplace Author:Werner Herzog
“Otherwise you have to repeat a lot when you're filming. And I've seen the film and it's in a border town in Mexico close to the border with the United States, so of course you have a lot of traffic and noise and dogs barking right nearby, and for that you have to repeat a lot and Robert Rodriguez didn't do that. Smart, smart, smart, you better have smarts also.” StatesFilmCoursesUnitedUnited StatesDogSmartTownsNoiseBordersRepeatsMexicoTraffic Author:Werner Herzog
“The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.” LooksBookMovingLyingSpeakBoundsSavingBordersCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“We need to push our border across the Mediterranean - hoping that Libya can find a new balance as soon as possible.” NeedsBalanceBordersLibya Author:Matteo Salvini
“You have a huge number of people who spend their time writing papers which show that migrants pay more to the country than they take out in benefits, and they say, "Why don't you approve of migration? Why don't you open up borders?" They're not able to empathize with how people feel about migration.” PeopleFeelsWritingCountryShowsAbleNumbersPayHugePaperBenefitsBordersPapersMigrationMigrantsHuge Numbers Author:Duncan Green
“I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a lot of us who believe in open trade, open borders, a dynamic forward-looking economy, not a nostalgic economy, but do want to provide a significant level of social service or sort of economic Milton Friedman foreign policy, Ronald Reagan domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt. And there's a lot of room in the center.” ThinkingWantBelieveLeftSocialLevelsRoomsEconomyEconomicPolicyTrumpTradeSignificantBordersForeign PolicyFranklinNostalgicPopulistMiltonSocial ServiceDomestic Policy Author:David Brooks
“Today, more people are crossing various borders in order to survive, thrive, change their lives. Even if you don't cross the border, with demographic shifts, the border sometimes crosses you.” PeopleIfsSometimesTodayOrderCrossesVariousBordersThriveCrossingsDemographics Author:Andrew Lam
“We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.” ShouldEndsUseGovernmentCitizensChinaBordersRealmsPrivacySpheres Author:Ai Weiwei
“Hezbollah fighters are on the borders with Lebanon where the terrorists attacked them. On the borders with Lebanon, this is where Hezbollah retaliated, and this is where we have cooperation, and that's good.” TerroristFighterBordersCooperationLebanonHezbollah Author:Bashar al-Assad
“On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don't exist all over Syria.” WantForceProtectAreasBordersSyriaLebanonHezbollah Author:Bashar al-Assad
“[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.” ReasonForceBordersSyriaHezbollah Author:Bashar al-Assad
“The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching the United States. Pretty much the same thing Europeans have done to Turks and Syrians.” StatesDoneUnitedUnited StatesSucceedAdministrationBarackBordersReachingMexicoMexicanPressuredMexican Border Author:Noam Chomsky
“We conducted talks on border issues with our friends in the People's Republic of China for 40 years. There were also issues related to specific territories.” PeopleYearsIssuesChinaBordersRelatedRepublicTerritory Author:Vladimir Putin
“Now we are talking about concluding a free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Council, recently established in the post-Soviet space, and China. A similar agreement was concluded a short time ago with Vietnam. Then, we will coordinate, at least we are ready to do this, the Chinese concept of the Silk Road Economic Belt with our newly-created regional organisation. So, do you understand how diverse, multi-faceted and deep Russian-Chinese ties have become over the last couple of decades? And we resolved the border issue.” LastsSpaceTalkingIssuesEconomicReadyCoupleConceptsTradeChinaDecadesPostsChineseBordersTiesAgreementVietnamSovietDiverseCouncilBeltsOrganisationSilkShort TimeFree TradeCoordinatesTrade AgreementsConcludingSilk Road Author:Vladimir Putin
“In Europe, where the terrorist threat is probably greatest at the moment, the amount of information-sharing that's been taking place, the effectiveness of law enforcement across borders gives us the ability to protect ourselves while still being true to the basic precepts of our liberal democracies. I hope that that continues, and it is something that I think we should be worried about.” ThinkingGivingShouldStillsMomentsLawAbilityDemocracyInformationAmountProtectEuropeThreatTerroristBeing TrueWorriedBordersLaw EnforcementEnforcementEffectivenessLiberal DemocracyInformation Sharing Author:Barack Obama
“[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders.” PeopleYoungEnormousEntrepreneurshipBorders Author:Barack Obama
“My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.” PeopleBordersOpponentsGave Up Author:Nigel Farage
“America has borders. You have quite strict borders, actually. Even getting a work permit in New York actually is quite a difficult thing to do. I've got to prove I've got an address. I've got to prove I have private health care. And when my work permit runs out, if I haven't left, there'll be a knock at the door, they'll put me in handcuffs and take me to JFK Airport. That's how you guys do it.” IfsCareRunningAmericaGuyLeftDifficultDoorsHavensNew YorkProveHealth CareBordersThings To DoAddressesTake MePermitStrictAirportsDifficult ThingsHandcuffs Author:Nigel Farage
“Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.” WarCareBoundariesBordersShirtsWornT ShirtUnlikelySibling Author:Robert Bly
“The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.” RealStatesReasonHavensBordersPalestinianPersistentRefusal Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“I've spent a fair amount of time down at the border.I have watched as these packs of marijuana are on the backs of young men that are walking across the border. They're hauling an average of about 65 pounds, some of them every day they take another load.” MenYoungAmountWalkingFairsAverageBordersYoung ManPoundsMarijuanaLoadPacks Author:Steve King
“When you say a wall, you mean a wall. You want to build a fence, you say fence. You don't use it as a euphemism for a virtual, say surveillance from hot air balloons that are floating over the border which some people have advocated.” PeopleWantMeanUseAirWallHotBordersFenceFloatingSurveillanceBalloonsEuphemismHot AirAir BalloonsHot Air Balloons Author:Steve King
“That way when we pick people up there they don't really have an excuse. They weren't out there picking mushrooms. They were illegally in the United States. It will simplify the adjudication and will expedite the voluntary return, and it will allow our border patrol officers to patrol both sides of that wall. And we can put surveillance devices on top of the wall, vibration detectors and other devices.” PeopleWayStatesSidesUnitedUnited StatesWallReturnPicksExcuseBordersDevicesOfficersBoth SidesVibrationsSurveillanceSimplifyMushroomsBorder Patrol Author:Steve King
“This definition about against their will, that's a made up term. Did any of those little kids say I didn't want to come here? Did they say I was brought here against my will? Some of them were walking across the border on their own, lots of them, and we'll see them coming across every day at McCallum, Texas. They're still pouring across the border. They know what they're doing. It's not against their will.” KnowsWantLittlesMadeStillsKidsTermWalkingDefinitionsBordersTexasLittle KidPouring Author:Steve King
“I don't think you get that ask unless you first enforce the law, and demonstrate you secured the border. And still whatever this does to our hearts, and it tugs on mine, too, but the most important thing is to restore the respect for the rule of law.” ThinkingFirstsHeartDoeStillsImportantLawAsksMinesImportant ThingsBordersRule Of LawSecured Author:Steve King
“[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.” HumansStatesUnitedUnited StatesDignitySouthBordersImmigrantsSpokesTexasPopeRoutesHuman DignityMigrants Author:Sylvia Poggioli
“Mr. Obama needs to make a phone call to Ankara and have a serious conversation about why the current government in Turkey isn't going to seal its border, why it doesn't take a stronger position against the Islamic State.” NeedsStatesGovernmentPositionSeriousConversationStrongerPhonesCurrentsBordersIslamicTurkeysSealsPhone CallsIslamic StateAnkara Author:Vijay Prashad
“It would be a mistake to overstate the similarities between the Brexit vote and Trump's win - but there are common themes, not least in the rallying cries that the winning campaigns used. They focused on a supposed economic threat posed by outsiders, as immigrants or as trade partners. This fuelling of anxieties underpinned a narrative centered on the need to "regain control," whether of borders or of economic forces.” NeedsWould BeUsedWinningForceCommonMistakeEconomicCryTrumpAnxietyVoteTradeThreatFocusedPartnersCampaignsNarrativeBordersThemeImmigrantsOutsidersSimilarityRallyingRallying Cry Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.” KindPolicySecureBordersBarriersDevices Author:Paul Ryan
“I think the Turks' willingness to take seriously action on the borders to stop the flow of foreign fighters joining ISIL is significant.” ThinkingActionFlowSignificantFighterBordersWillingnessJoiningIsil Author:Barack Obama
“Donald Trump needs to stay focused and remember the promises to you, the American people. You know the promises, repeal and replace Obamacare, identify radical Islam, lower taxes, repatriate corporate profits, build the border wall, appoint originalists to the Supreme Court, fix inner cities, energy independence, drain the swamp, send education back to the states, you know, say radical Islam, vet refugees, all of these important issues, free trade.” PeopleKnowsNeedsImportantStatesRememberEnergyCitiesIssuesWallTrumpPromiseTaxesIndependenceTradeCourtIslamProfitFocusedSupremeRadicalCorporateBordersSupreme CourtRefugeeObamacareDrainsStay FocusedFree TradeSwampsImportant IssuesInner CityVetsRadical IslamEnergy Independence Author:Sean Hannity
“I said to one young activist who herself was the daughter of an undocumented worker, and so could speak from a very personal and legitimate perspective - I remember saying to her: I agree with you, from a moral perspective, that a child from Honduras is worth the same as my daughter. God is not a respecter of boundaries; he's not saying that American kids deserve a better life than Honduran kids. But I'm the president of the United States, and the nation-state by definition means that boundaries mean something and borders mean something.” MeanChildrenSaidStatesKidsRememberYoungSpeakNationsPresidentUnitedMoralUnited StatesPerspectiveDaughterDeserveAgreeWorkersDefinitionsBoundariesBordersMy DaughterActivistBetter LifeHondurasUndocumented Workers Author:Barack Obama
“I have to be able to implement a policy that doesn't completely erase borders and boundaries. Not because I think that Honduran child who's gotten here is less worthy of love, attention, opportunity than my child, but because I'm the president of the United States of America and I'm not speaking as a religious leader.” ThinkingChildrenStatesAbleAmericaOpportunityPresidentReligiousUnitedAttentionLeaderUnited StatesPolicyWorthyBoundariesMy ChildrenBordersUnited States Of AmericaEraseReligious LeadersWorthy Of Love Author:Barack Obama
“I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.” PeopleThinkingTryingCountryStatesInterestCrossesStealingBorders Author:Samantha Power
“If we allow the United States to set the precedent that national borders don't matter when it comes to the protection of people's information, other countries are watching. They're paying attention to our examples and what is normative behavior in terms of dealing with digital information.” PeopleIfsCountryMatterStatesTermUnitedAttentionUnited StatesInformationExampleBehaviorProtectionPay AttentionBordersDigitalOther CountriesPrecedentNational Borders Author:Edward Snowden
“I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.” HalfBordersPalestineIsraeliModification Author:Jimmy Carter
“I mean, all of these things that [Bashar Assad] has done, there's no way even if President Obama wanted to just play along that you could actually achieve peace, because there are 65 million Sunni in between Baghdad and the border of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, who will never, ever again accept Assad as a member - as a legitimate leader.” IfsWayMeanDonePlayWantedPresidentLeaderAcceptingMillionsAchieveMembersIraqBordersPresident ObamaSyriaTurkeysBaghdadAssad Author:John F. Kerry
“At the northern border of Azerbaijan, Daghestan by no means contributes to the democratization of the Caucasus.” MeanBordersDemocratizationAzerbaijanCaucasus Author:Garry Kasparov
“In my opinion, this vicious circle will be broken by history itself. Because sticking to the current form of governance, which is to say guaranteeing the survival of [Vladimir] Putin's regime, will necessarily lead to the demise of Russia within its present borders.” FormOpinionBrokenSurvivalCurrentsCirclesRussiaBordersRegimesViciousGovernancePutinDemiseVicious Circles Author:Garry Kasparov
“You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.” IfsWritingYearsWellsLooksLongEnoughNovelCrossesBordersRefugeeFrontiersPolicemen Author:Elie Wiesel
“Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.” WayGovernmentNationsResponsibilityBordersDecentExceptional Author:Lindsey Graham
“The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.” Has BeensPurposeReadingSpaceEuropeBuiltChainsBordersGiantsChaptersBookstoresMallsGongs Author:William Gibson
“There are a lot of different ways of getting Mexico to contribute to doing this. And there are different ways of defining how exactly they pay for it. [Donald Trump] has a promise that he made to the American people which is to secure our border. A wall is a big part of that.” PeopleWayMadeDifferentBigsPayWallTrumpPromiseSecureBordersDifferent WaysMexicoDefining Author:Paul Ryan
“We agree with that goal [to secure our border] and will be working with [Donald Trump] to finance on construction of the physical barrier, including the wall on the southern border. The law is already on the books. I voted for it, like, ten years ago, but nothing has gotten done and now we have a president who actually wants to secure the border and we are all in favor of doing that.” WantYearsBookDoneLawGoalPresidentWallTrumpTenYears AgoAgreeIncludingFavorsFinanceSecureBordersBarriersSouthernConstruction Author:Paul Ryan
“There`s a long conversation we`re going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.” LongLawConversationEssentialsImmigrationBordersImmigration LawsLong Conversations Author:Paul Ryan
“We have national security concerns. There are lots of concerns which must be addressed by actually securing our border. And so, a physical security barrier on the border is something we`ve all - I voted for it, like I said, in 2006 or 2007.” SaidSecurityConcernBordersBarriersNational Security Author:Paul Ryan
“Sovereign countries have the right, and I would argue the responsibility of securing their borders and controlling who comes and goes in their country. All sovereign countries have that right. We have not exercised that right.” CountryResponsibilityArguingBordersSovereignComes And Goes Author:Paul Ryan
“We`re focused on physically securing the border. We`re focus on those who are coming to do us harm from terrorist states and things like that. That is our focus, and it`s on criminal aliens, people who are violent criminals who have not been deported.” PeopleStatesFocusFocusedHarmCriminalsTerroristViolentAliensBordersViolent Criminals Author:Paul Ryan