Borders Quotes - Page 17

• Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people.

  Helen Clark

  Country, Land, People

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• If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.

  Henry Cuellar

  Agency, Law, Demand

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• After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.

  Howie Carr

  Years, Numbers, Aliens

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• There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

  Paul Cellucci

  Jobs, Mean, United States

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• These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.

  Paul Cellucci

  Team, Law, Office

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• I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

  David Dewhurst

  Texas, Support, Guests

  "Dewhurst in 2007 supported guest worker program ‘for those here today illegally’" by Peggy Fikac, blog.chron.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.

  David Dewhurst

  Jobs, Believe, Issues

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• We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

  David Dewhurst

  Needs, Humane, Humans

  "Dewhurst in 2007 supported guest worker program ‘for those here today illegally’" by Peggy Fikac, blog.chron.com. June 27, 2012.

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• While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.

  Elton Gallegly

  Strong, Illegal Activities, Law

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• I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.

  Lisa Gardner

  Age, Internet, Crime

  "Lisa Gardner, author of 'Touch & Go'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Politics, Today

  Taped Announcement on Candidacy for California Governor, delivered 4 January 1966

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• No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.

  Margaret Sanger

  Death, Science, Privilege

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

  Virgil Goode

  Priorities, Independence, Gasoline

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• No border that touches Israel is always secure.

  Chuck Hagel

  Israel, Secure

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• The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Problem, Republican, Democratic

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• My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.

  Mike Johanns

  Japan, Korea, Goal

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

  Ric Keller

  Southern, Immigration, Problem

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• There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Iran, Afghanistan

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

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• The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Important, Troops, Three

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

  Tom Morello

  Illinois, Color, Firsts

  "Tom Morello on solo album, politics and racism". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.

  Janet Napolitano

  People, Community, Mexico

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• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Important, President, Signatures

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• I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.

  Russell Pearce

  Law, America, People

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• Don't just talk about Hispanics and say immediately we must have controlled borders. It's kind of insulting when you think about it. Change the tone would be the first thing. Second, on immigration, I think we need to have a broader approach.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Insulting, Immigration

  "Jeb Bush berates 'hyper-partisan' GOP - US politics as it happened". www.theguardian.com.

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• I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions to it. But we also have to do something about the drugs that are coming across our southern border that are killing our kids... I think there are some people who want to leave this country and return to the country they came from, but obviously it requires a broader solution that that, and we all know that.

  John McCain

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  John McCain Slams Mitt Romney’s ‘Self-Deportation,’ Advocates ‘Humane Approach’ To Immigration" by Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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