Quotes About Borders

I got my first passport in 1989, when I was 28.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

The fact is this is a great country because we've always embraced immigrants. The fact is we have every right to enforce our borders and to protect them, but we also need to provide a pathway for citizenship.

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.

To me, that's what the Peace Corps is all about - the impact that simple acts of service can have across borders, generations, and time. It's a lesson I carry with me every day.

The peasantry, when it wishes to escape peasantry, has always, for centuries, across all borders, escaped into a uniform.

Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

If we open the borders tomorrow there would be 50 million people who came here, all good people, mostly good people. But they'd all want jobs. They'd drive wages down. Not because they intend to, that's not what they're coming for, but that would be the result.

Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.

The States doesn't think much about Canada, but we're attached. We're like Siamese twins. We can't do things - you can't roll over in the American bed without waking up the Canadians. It matters.

I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got a bit stir crazy when I hit my teens. There was the feeling of having to get out, you know, but it was definitely idyllic.

Provence, just one relatively small part of France, is almost twice the size of Wales, with double the population. It's a region of the south that stretches from the borders of Monaco and Italy in the east to Hyeres in the west, the Alps in the north to the sparkling Mediterranean in the south.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

Me myself, I'm not a big fan of the idea of countries.

We must secure the border, and we must not allow people to come into this country when we do not know who they are.

All border crossings in and out of Iraq must be under the exclusive control of the federal state.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

Democrats simply don't believe in borders.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

What 'Clandestino' is talking about is problems of borders, and more and more hermetic borders all around the world.

Every country has the right to manage who comes in and out of those borders.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.