Borders Quotes - Page 11

• As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

  Stephen Covey

  Family, Balance, Trying

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• But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

  John Cornyn

  Country, Years, People

  "Sens. Reed, Cornyn Talk 'Ground Zero Mosque,' Immigration Reform and Afghanistan". "Fox News Sunday" With Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2010.

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• As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

  Spencer Bachus

  Jobs, Texas, Cities

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• By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.

  Spencer Bachus

  Home, Citizens, Mexico

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• So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind of cross-border trade to happen. So therefore the idea of borderlessness has a performative contradiction within it which has to be kept alive.

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  Hands, Order, Ideas

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• I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation, and the water flowing through our borders is its life blood.

  Wayne Allard

  Beautiful, Thinking, Blood

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• After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career — in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad — watching the people within those borders burn.

  Robert Fisk

  Father, War, Land

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Letting Go, Wind, Hands

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• 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

  Race, Gold, World

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• We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ] if we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.

  Alan Greenspan

  Country, School, Average

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• Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.

  Christa Wolf

  Writing, Mean, Self

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• Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Islamic, People, Culture

  "American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear". Book by Khaled A. Beydoun, April 3, 2018.

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• Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

  Dave Reichert

  Immigration, Reform, Economic

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• As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

  Rick Larsen

  Games, Risk, Tasks

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• Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon

  Marc Andreessen

  Suicide, Example, Amazon

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• Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Target, Information, Protection

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• This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.

  Benjamin Zephaniah

  Planets

  Benjamin Zephaniah (2011). “Refugee Boy”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping. I also saw huge forests, extending along several borders. And I watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. Two words leaped to mind as I looked down on all this: commonality and interdependence. We are one world.

  John-David F. Bartoe

  Country, Ocean, Two

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• A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure despite twelve carrier battle groups. We must accept that it is a cornerstone of Mexican foreign policy to export illegally each year a million of its own to the United States to avoid needed reform at home and to influence American domestic policy.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Home, Years

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• Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved too numerous or formidable in arms - even when those enemies were grim Macedonians or Germans. Rather, in times of peace and prosperity there arose an unreal view of the world beyond their borders, one that was the product of insularity brought about by success, and an intellectual arrogance that for some can be the unfortunate byproduct of an enlightened society.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Views, Rome, Intellectual Arrogance

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• For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands to conduct the type of murder we saw on September 11. For all real problems with ambushes and sabotage, there will be no more gassings, mass murdering, invading neighbors, sending guided missiles across borders or no-fly zones in Iraq, but rather the hard work of consensual government - a difficult process easily caricatured, but when completed universally admired.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, Hard Work, Iraq

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• Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

  Jim Rogers

  Country, Government, Years

  Jim Rogers (2014). “A Gift to my Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing”, p.60, John Wiley & Sons

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• Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.

  Lech Walesa

  Division, Pay, Able

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• I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.

  Lech Walesa

  Victory, Succeed, Rivals

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• While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United States – more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United States’ southern border, Mexico will affect America’s destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Destiny, America, People

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