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Quotes About Borders

I don't believe love has borders. If I meet a nice man in China, I definitely think it's possible.
~ Song Hye-kyo
The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.
~ Ehud Olmert
When I first arrived in the U.S. House of Representatives, I naively believed that it was primarily the Democrats who were committed to open borders. But I quickly learned the entire Republican establishment also supported a policy of immigration non-enforcement.
~ Tom Tancredo
Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and supports protection of national security.
~ Jan C. Ting
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Surely everyone can agree that immigration should be controlled.
~ Steve Hilton
Hodanje je sušta suprotnost posedovanju. Doživljaj zemlje hodanjem pretpostavlja pokretljivost, golorukost, sudeoništvo. Nomadi su ?esto predstavljali pretnju po nacionalizam zato što svojim skitni?kim životom zamagljuju i prevazilaze utvr?ene granice kojima se definišu nacije.
~ Rebecca Solnit
There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. As {she} sat at the edge of {the lake}, memory blossoms floated unbounded, as though breathed, no words spoken. Like birds that fly across national borders, between countries at war at each other.
~ Rebecca Wells
The Roman Senate determined that the most effective way to retake Jerusalem from Parthian control was to make Herod its client-king and let him accomplish the task on Rome's behalf. The naming of client-kings was standard practice during the early years of the Roman Empire, allowing Rome to expand its borders without expending valuable resources administering conquered provinces directly.
~ Reza Aslan
MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and those that have lots of oil and very little history. With a few notable exceptions, both groups share a common feature: they were cobbled together by outsiders. The borders of the modern Middle East were drawn by Europeans after the First World War with no regard for the interests or backgrounds of the people who inhabited it.
~ Richard Engel
Money has no country.
~ Christina Stead
I'll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.
~ Leonard Cohen
It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.
~ Ross Douthat
Belgium is the best remedy against patriotism.
~ Geert van Istendael
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
~ James K. Polk
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
~ Bill Frist
The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
When goods don't cross borders, armies will.
~ David Cudlip
Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.
~ Porfirio Diaz
God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza
Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
~ Barry McCaffrey