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“You hear some people talk about border security and a wall and all that. To me, I don't know that you need any of that if you had a better, saner way to let people into the country in the first place.”

People Ifs Knows Way Needs Firsts Country Security Wall Borders Border Security

Author:Scott Walker

“We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.”

Humans Earth Faces Nations Human Beings Class Citizens Crosses Sick Tired Treated Borders Immigrants Virtuous American Citizens Second Class Citizens

Author:Mark Levin

“I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.”

Thinking Want Mean Children Littles House Poor Nice Drug Comfortable Certainty Uncertainty Borders Immigrants Complacency Michigan Cnn Cartels Drug Cartels

Author:Stephen King

“Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.”

People Knows Know How Growing Up Growing Towns Borders Native Native American Frustrated Michigan Illinois Pronunciation

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.”

Knows Looks States United Moral United States Fairs Shame Iraq Borders Canada Not Fair High Ground Shame On You Moral High Ground

Author:Tucker Carlson

“You cover the bad news about America. You do. But you don't get up in the morning hating your country. And so, until somebody shows me lines at the border trying to get out, I think there's some good news.”

Thinking Trying Country Shows America Hate Lines Morning News Get Up Borders Show Me Good News Hate You Bad News

Author:Roger Ailes

“The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.”

Soul Matter Felt Capacity Essence My Soul Borders Bowls Dross

Author:Thomas Traherne

“If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists.”

Ifs World Believe Country Enemy Partners Terrorist Borders Wealthy Fewer Believe You Can

Author:William J. Clinton

“Law and order embrace on hate's border.”

Law Hate Order Embrace Borders Law And Order

Book:The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen

Source: The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen

“In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests.”

Should Done Interest Enemy Relation Secure Permanent Borders Trans

Author:Chanakya

“Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.”

War Loses Terrorism Immigration Borders Abandon Allies War On Terror Utopian War On Terrorism Globalism

Author:Pat Buchanan

“American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.”

People Values Tradition Borders Permit American Values Detention

Author:Barack Obama

“Border agents have now been issued air guns that shoot pepper balls at people coming across the Mexican border. Have they thought this through? Is that going to bother people from Mexico? Pepper balls? Don't these people eat jalapenos? Isn't that like firing meatballs at an Italian guy?”

People Guy Air Gun Balls Agents Bother Borders Italian Mexico Mexican Firing Peppers Meatballs Mexican Border Jalapenos

Author:Jay Leno

“The Canadian Identity, it seems, is truly elusive only at home. Beyond the borders Canadians know exactly who they are, within they see themselves as part of a family, a street, a neighbourhood, a community, a province , a region, and on special occasions like Canada Day and Grey Cup weekend and, of course, during the Winter Olympics, a country called Canada. Beyond the borders, they pine; within the borders, they more often whine”

“Definitely. Cate Blanchett or Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore - women that have no boundaries, no borders. They can do anything, They can be any character and you accept it and go with it as a viewer, and as an audience member. That's the kind of career that I'm looking for.”

Kind Character Can Do Accepting Careers Audience Members Boundaries Borders Viewers No Boundaries

Author:Jessica Biel

“All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.”

Creation Equal All Things Distance Borders Within You Closest Smallest Lowest

Author:Khalil Gibran

“One of the Canadian customs guards got suspicious and said 'Haven't you been coming and going across the border a lot lately?' I finally told him I was auditioning for Wolverine and everything changed. One minute it was get ready for the strip search, the next it was come on and sign six hundred autographs.”

Said Next Minutes Havens Changed Ready Six Hundred Borders Customs Suspicious Autographs One Minute

Author:Hugh Jackman

“When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for the 'fantastic' get-out-the-vote program... some of this borders on RICO violations.”

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Author:Patrick Caddell

“No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.”

Country Running Risk Europe Borders Continents Altruism Misguided Weakening

Author:Tony Abbott

“I decided that there is really some sort of entity that I call Imperial, and I decided to extend it all the way along the California-Mexico border and into Tijuana and then to the Pacific because it all has a similar feeling.”

Way Feelings Decided California Borders Mexico Entity Pacific Tijuana

Author:William T. Vollmann

“We're living in what used to be Mexico, and there's this very fluid border feeling. You go a little bit south of Tijuana, for instance, into Ensenada, and it still seems kind of borderlike. And you go much farther, suddenly the prices are lower, the prostitution is different, the commerce is different, everything feels more "Mexican."”

Feels Kind Littles Stills Different Feelings Seems Used Bits Little Bit South Used To Be Instance Borders Mexico Commerce Mexican Prostitution Fluid E Commerce Tijuana

Author:William T. Vollmann

“There are parts of L.A. that feel very, very Mexican, and there are weird little enclaves of Northside in Mexico - Cancún for instance. So what is a border?”

Feels Littles Instance Borders Mexico Mexican

Author:William T. Vollmann

“I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't think I know quite enough to do it right.”

Thinking Knows Feels Writing Years Enough Fiction Ready Borders Nonfiction Writing Nonfiction

Author:William T. Vollmann

“Whereas if I want to create a prostitute character now from memories of different prostitutes and inventing stuff, I can say, "this could happen," "this is quite plausible." But I don't feel I know enough about border life to do the latter.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels I Can Different Enough Character Happens Stuff Memories Borders Latter Inventing Plausible

Author:William T. Vollmann

“An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.”

Should Mean Together Policy Easier Essentials Harder Workers Immigration Borders Allowing Humane Criteria Back And Forth Caregivers Immigration Policy Migrate

Author:Jody Heymann

“I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.”

World Believe States Play I Believe Levels Roles Ideals I Believe In Practicals Borders Minors Secular

Author:Shahin Najafi

“In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn't exist, borders don't exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me.”

Way Trying Kind States Nations Internet Borders Consensus

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.”

Knows Beautiful Months Summer Borders Autumn August

Author:Tove Jansson

“The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us”

Evil Borders Good And Evil

Author:Pope Francis

“There is a common perception that there are two alternative libertarian positions on immigration: government-controlled borders and open borders. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is only one libertarian position on immigration, and that position is open immigration or open borders.”

Two Government Common Position Perception Libertarian Immigration Alternatives Borders Controlled

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“Europe has another meaning for me. Every time I mention that word, I see the Bosnian family in front of me, living far away from whatever they call home and eating their own wonderful food because that's all that is left for them. The fact remains that after fifty years, it was possible to have another war in Europe; that it was possible to change borders; that genocide is still possible even today.”

Years Stills War Facts Home Today Left Wonderful Fronts Eating Europe Remains Borders Fifty Genocide Far Away Bosnians

Author:Slavenka Drakulic

“If Hamas continues to threaten the security of the state of Israel, I believe Israel has the ability and the capacity to control the borders and cut off the weapons supply.”

Ifs Believe States I Believe Ability Cutting Security Weapons Capacity Israel Borders Hamas

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“We have nothing to hide and it should be clear for the international community whose fault it was that the last closed European border was not open.”

Should Lasts Community Clear Faults International Borders International Community

Author:Serzh Sargsyan

“For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.”

Ends Home Universe Doors Borders Village Threshold

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult proposition.”

Ifs Asks Difficult Successful Borders Mexico Propositions

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“Diseases don't respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn't the edge of diseases. We need to be sure that we're looking worldwide. And it is in our security interest, as well as our moral interest, to pay attention to the rest of the world.”

Knows World Needs Wells Interest Pay Attention Moral Security Disease Edges Pay Attention Borders

Author:Laura Bush

“If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality. We will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.”

Ifs Peace Risk Security Garden Crosses Prepared Harm Conclusion Borders Related Threatened Turkeys Border Security

Author:Ahmet Davutoglu

“We need military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism.”

Needs Military Battle Drug Terrorism Borders Border Patrol

Author:Jerry Weller

“Certify border is secure; only then allow guest workers.”

Workers Secure Borders Guests

Author:John McCain

“It [Border fence] hasn't worked. What has worked is more border patrols... What has worked is some technology.”

Borders Fence Border Patrol

Author:Bill Richardson

“We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.”

Defined Borders

Author:Barack Obama

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best...they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.”

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Author:Donald Trump

“The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.”

Evil Borders Good And Evil Fuzzy

Author:Milan Kundera

“Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.”

Thinking Should Years Winning Goal Republican Borders Seals

Author:Benjamin Carson

“When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.”

Critics Ridiculous Borders Sublime

Book:The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar

“Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as religious consciousness; that borders on mysticism so closely that it's hard to know whether you qualify or not, or whether mysticism is artificially isolated when it is treated as a separate thing from experience. Obviously, mysticism can be a form of madness, but then consciousness can be a form of madness.”

Knows Kind Hard Form Courses Given Religious Consciousness Madness Treated Borders Mysticism Isolated

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“I think it's perfectly possible for us to stay outside of power politics, or parliamentary politics, and speak about things like the American hegemony in the region or speak about the unjust war on terror that's been brought to our borders.”

Thinking War Speak Terror Borders Regions Unjust War On Terror Hegemony Parliamentary Power Politics Unjust War American Hegemony

Author:Fatima Bhutto

“We [americans] need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house.”

People Needs House Borders

Author:John Kasich

“The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.”

World Different War Moments Would Be Century Particular Borders Reasonable New World Stable Forecasts

Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Jesus said, "Teach all nations." He never said that we need governmental permission to evangelize. Faithfulness to God and the Great Commission compels us to reach beyond borders to people in restricted nations.”

People Needs Said Jesus Nations Teach Borders Permission Faithfulness Great Commission

Author:Richard Wurmbrand

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