Quotes About Borders

Many people aren't happy with the refugees coming to their country. Maybe we came illegally, but every other door was shut in our faces. What do they expect us to do?

We went from Greece to Macedonia, and then to Serbia, Hungary, and Austria before reaching Germany.

We have all of Iran on our right, Iraq and the Persian Gulf on our left, and Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey ahead of us

For this reason, it is to be expected that one or more nation-states will undertake covert action to subvert the appeal of transience. Travel could be effectively discouraged by biological warfare, such as the outbreak of a deadly epidemic. This could not only discourage the desire to travel, it could also give jurisdictions throughout the globe an excuse to seal their borders and limit immigration.

The dividing lines between territories tended to become clearly demarcated and fixed as borders in the nation-state system. They will become hazy again in the Information Age. In the new millennium, sovereignty will be fragmented once more. New entities will emerge exercising some but not all of the characteristics we have come to associate with governments.

If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

They all knew borders no longer divided the world so much as ideologies.

Borders are about claims to land, but as soon as you draw one you limit yourself. Every border is also an act of denial, an acknowledgment of another's rights. By contrast, the claim to want no borders, much prized by corporate executives and anticapitalist activists alike, is a claim to the whole world. Borders have a far more ambivalent and complex relationship to territory; they combine both arrogance and modesty, both demand and denial.

Every country in the E.U. should make a personnel and a financial contribution in that area. We shouldn't leave alone countries like Italy and Greece that have external borders; rather, we must make the external borders safe together.

We must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it, even if we sometimes have to build a wall.

I am working with Donald Trump to deport dangerous illegal aliens, build the wall, and end sanctuary cities.

Building walls is entirely sensible. We don't need to do it. We have got the English Channel.

Simply put - walls work.

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Our immigration system needs walls and doors. We need walls to stop illegal immigration, but we also need to doors to allow people to come here legally.

Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

About ten to twelve million people were forced to leave their homes and cross the new border.102

I am from Canada, and it is really hard for us to go to the United States and prove what we are able to do.

If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe.