“Driving home from work, our white and yellow plates will clog the streets; at the checkpoints, cars will stretch far into the distance; and on the bypass roads, orange buses will sit heavy with students. The trees have always known better— they let strange winds rush into their arms; they cast borders and then they reverse them.” PoetryFearPoemBordersSuspicionTreesPalestineRejectingWelcomingCheckpoints Author:Dalia Taha
“On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.” KindHas BeensHandsSecurityPercentAddLondonAll KindsNonsenseBusSchemesAdventurousSubwayCheckpoints Author:Otto Schily
“It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.” WorldChoicesKingsStandardsWestCustomersEastBoundariesAdvertisingTransitionSocialistCharlieBerlinCrossingsUniformityCheckpointsEast BerlinWest Berlin Author:Enoch Powell
“When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."” ThinkingWantKindDoneRememberGivenPracticeHappenedLandHolySouthIsraelPalestinianSouth AfricaApartheidBeing DoneAnti SemiticHoly LandCheckpoints Author:Desmond Tutu
“To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail. Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.” PeopleRunningWaitingCitiesSecurityCrimeNeededLuckyLuckSoldierIsraelFamiliarBlockHospitalsJailPermitGrandfatherDependenceTeenageEmergenciesHomelandWhimIndignitySqualorCheckpoints Author:Desmond Tutu
“You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay.” OkayBaghdadCheckpoints Author:Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
“When I was in Sri Lanka with the [Tamil] Tigers, there were editorials in the paper saying that soldiers really had to stop raping Tamil women at checkpoints because they were just creating more operatives. The [Tigers] were cognizant of this and exploited it: "Don't be a victim, join the movement.” MovementPaperCreatingVictimSoldierTigersEditorialsSri LankaCognizantCheckpoints Author:Mia Bloom
“Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize those cancer cells and kill them is another very promising approach and there have been some checkpoint blockade drugs out in the market now that will release the brake on T lymphocytes, the T lymphocyte is your major killer of tumor cells.” Has BeensActingDrugApproachMajorsCancerReleaseCellsKillersImmuneVaccinesImmune SystemBrakeTumorsBlockadesCheckpoints Author:Laurie Glimcher
“When you think of the costs of cancer care, one can imagine that drugs like checkpoint blockers or transfer of these T lymphocytes are actually cost-saving, just as treatments for hepatitis C, while expensive, overall save money by preventing hepatitis and hep - hepatocarcinoma in patients.” ThinkingCareImagineCostDrugPatientCancerSavingExpensiveTreatmentImagine ThatTransfersSaving MoneyPreventingCheckpointsHepatitisHepatitis C Author:Laurie Glimcher
“There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters.” IfsCharacterReadingListsClicheCheckpoints Author:Paul Rudd
“God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.” LooksKindDoneLandMiddleHolySouthEastMiddle EastPalestinianSouth AfricaPalestineBeing DoneHoly LandCheckpoints Author:Desmond Tutu
“The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from a desire to compose an image for cinema. It is not my fault that when I go to Ramallah there is a checkpoint and therefore it enters my film. Tell me a way to avoid that politicized image. The fact is that the police are everywhere, the army everywhere and occupation is total. Whether it's a love story or a thriller, you place the camera and these realities will cross the frame.” WayArtFactsStoriesRealityFilmFormDesireHumorousCrossesArmyPoliceCamerasFaultsLove StoryCinemaPoeticOccupationThrillersBurlesqueVignettesCheckpointsTableau Author:Elia Suleiman
“I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.” GrowthEconomyBlockMinistersBarriersPrimePalestinianPrime MinisterFacilitateCheckpoints Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.” LongGovernmentAmericaLostBornLibertyAcceptingStreetsRevolutionDeservePoliceMindsetWelcomeCardsProtestHeritageComplacencyAutomobileIdentificationMistrustSubservientCheckpoints Author:Ron Paul
“After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.” StoriesTogetherForgetCitiesHealingWallUnionsWoundsExcitementNever ForgetAbandonedContinentsForget ItBerlinEuropean UnionComing TogetherBerlin WallCheckpoints Author:David Cameron
“I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.” BitsWallMuseumsCharlieBerlinHanging OnCheckpointsPhoto Of Me Author:David Hasselhoff
“Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint.” ShouldMightCoursesSecurityDangerousPackingLuggageCheckpoints Author:David Neeleman
“Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).” CountryDoneChangeConditionsWestGrantedPermanentBordersPermissionBerlinForeign CountriesCheckpoints Author:Gunter Schabowski
“Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views.” ChristViewsRelationIsraelSchemesPublic RelationsCheckpoints Author:Mark Tooley
“...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself.” WorldStillsDreamAliveObjectsNeededBeing TrueVisualsPrisonerStableAssuredKeepersLighthouseCheckpoints Book:Sula Source: Sula
“We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.” PeopleLawNumbersWatchesSecurityInformationConcernListsLayersAirportsPassengersCheckpoints Author:John S. Pistole