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Quotes About Passports

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.
~ Elton Gallegly
I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.
~ Amit Bhatia
I have a British and an American passport.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
~ Michael Moore
Airports drive me mad. I don't mind the flying; it's all the hassle before you get on the plane and afterwards, including walking five miles through corridors to the point where you queue for ages to check passports and hope your luggage has arrived safely.
~ June Whitfield
I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.
~ Diego Luna
My parents are both from Belfast. I have an Irish passport and a British passport, and I go back every summer and every Christmas, and sometimes I pop over during the year to say hi, and, of course, celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
~ Stella Maxwell
The Knights of Malta issues its own passports, stamps, and money, and carries on full diplomatic relations with seventy countries.
~ James Dale Davidson
We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
~ Rand Paul
Poindexter said we were going to spend the night [in Iran] at the camp ground in Meshad. So Tralala and I went to the market, in town. When we returned, the bus was gone. Our passports were in our backpacks on the bus. We rolled up in a Persian carpet to sleep that night. After a while, the Canadian guy [riding] in the bus, got worried. Went through our packs, found our passports, came back across the border to get us.
~ Richard Ehrlich
In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!
~ Alan Parsons
If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Whatever happens with Brexit, what I am absolutely convinced will not happen is that free movement of individuals, free movement of people, will not change, North and South without passports.
~ Leo Varadkar
I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.
~ Emily Mortimer
They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.
~ Pete Doherty
Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply chain of goods, and generally ensure the integrity of government records and services.
~ Mark Walport
But doing what, Charlie? Fake drinking IDs can't be that big money. Like you said, fake passports, identity packages, hell, work visas, that all makes sense. But how do you get from good-enough driver's licenses to that level of expertise?
~ Lisa Gardner
In India, where there are no passports or identity discs, and where religion counts for so much - except among those few who have crossed the 'black water' - i believe that a man wearing a saffron robe, or carrying a beggar's bowl, or with silver crosses on his headgear and chest, could walk from Khyber Pass to Cape Comorin without once being questioned about his destination, or the object of his journey.
~ Jim Corbett
In India, where there are no passports or identity discs, and where religions counts for so much- except among those few who have crossed the 'black water' - I believe that a man wearing a saffron robe, or carrying a beggar's bowl , or with silver crosses on his headgear and chest, could walk from Khyber Pass to Cape Comorin without once being questioned about his destination, or the object of his journey
~ Jim Corbett
Although only 7 percent of Americans have passports—a shocking realization since we seem to be everywhere—99 percent of us have television or the Internet.
~ Alice Walker
became a flood. In 1894 alone, some twelve hundred Rosetans applied for passports to America, leaving entire streets of their old village abandoned. The Rosetans began buying land on a rocky hillside connected to Bangor by a steep
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I'm well-traveled. I've had to get a few passports because I ran out of pages.
~ Amanda Lepore
Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill.
~ Lionel Barber