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Quotes About Border

Riose laughed suddenly. He foresaw that? Then he foresaw wrong, my good scientist. I suppose you call yourself that. Why, the Empire is more powerful now than it has been in a millennium. Your old eyes are blinded by the cold bleakness of the border. Come to the inner worlds some day; come to the warmth and the wealth of the center.
~ Isaac Asimov
Recently, a busload of us tourists crossing the border between Chile and Argentina had to wait an hour and a half while our documents were checked. Getting through the Berlin Wall was easier. Kafka was Chilean.
~ Isabel Allende
We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.
~ Jan Egeland
The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.
~ Hugh MacLennan
We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.
~ Sara Jeannette Duncan
This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.
~ Solomon Ortiz
Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
~ Igor Luksic
The easiest way to get into northern Iraq is through Turkey.
~ Husnu Ozyegin
I was stationed in Turkey, Mexico City, South America, Texas, Arizona, so I do know where the Mexican-U.S. border is.
~ Joe Arpaio
I grew up in a rural area. I grew up in deep southern middle Tennessee, probably about thirty miles from the Alabama border. There's nothing there, really. And the TV was my link to the outside world. It's what kept me from going into factory employment. It's what made me want to go to college. It was really inspiring.
~ DJ Qualls
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
~ Robert Toombs
We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore.
~ Ronny Chieng
I think the elites who have done nothing about it, who don't want a wall and don't care that the border is illegal, they see this as a threat.
~ Jeff Sessions
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
~ Tony Abbott
We need a wall or a sophisticated fence, as long as it secures our border.
~ Mark Meadows
There is nothing compassionate about Biden's lax border policy, not for the poor souls who have been lured into the arms of criminal human-smugglers, and not for the American people, who already are suffering the consequences of what can only be described as a secret government-sponsored invasion.
~ Miranda Devine
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
~ Eric Clapton
The need for physical border security is a very real one. But equally important is the need to focus on the source of the problem: mass emigration from Central America.
~ Dan Crenshaw
We do not have a secure border on our southern flank.
~ Ron Johnson
For years, elites in both political parties have ignored the illegal immigration crisis growing on America's southern border.
~ Charlie Kirk
Democrats encouraged a porous southern border because they saw migrants and their American-born children as a source of future political support.
~ Charlie Kirk
Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.
~ Ric Keller
We need to secure our southern border. Clearly, the southern border is now a nexus between immigration and national security. It's a sieve.
~ Ryan Zinke
I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the southern border, along which are some of the safest communities in the country.
~ Michelle Lujan Grisham