Quotes About Ports

Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.

While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.

Ford stared at Arthur, and Arthur was astonished to find his will beginning to weaken. He didn't realize that this was because of an old drinking game that Ford learned to play in the hyper-space ports that served the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta.

Foreign opium imported into China was chiefly produced in British India and shipped solely from British ports.

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Dragoons arrested Jesuits in even the remotest parts of the frontier. Many Jesuits were marched to concentration camps at ports and then put on ships

California today is responsible for more than 40 percent of the nation's seagoing trade. That's why you can't talk about California without talking about its ports, as we will.

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

The common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our fish stocks and - I would hope - that if we leave the European Union, we can once more see the ports of Peterborough and Fraserhead and Grimsby flourishing, because we will take back control of our territorial waters.

Monday was my favorite day of the week, the embarkation of a seven-day cruise where the ports of call were as yet unknown but the possibilities for adventure were unlimited.

All places that the eye of heaven visitsAre to a wise man ports and happy havens.Teach thy necessity to reason thus;There is no virtue like necessity.Think not the king did banish thee,But thou the king.

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.

A haggis maker in Dumfries called Stuart Houston was one of my favourite ports of call - we made some lovely haggis tempura.

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade.

A well-functioning judicial or education system is just as much part of the wealth of a nation as its roads, ports and factories.

Investing in ports with partners is a very common model for us.

Italian ports are no longer at the disposal of traffickers.

I made a commitment to the people of Louisiana to bring our federal tax dollars home to invest in our road, bridges and ports.

Larger Post Panamax ships are critical to securing America's position in a global market, and all our ports, including Jaxport, must be deep enough to handle them.