Borders Quotes - Page 2

• Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

  Warren Christopher

  Environmental, Collaboration, Degradation

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• Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Dying, Birth

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.175

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• Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

  Boris Pasternak

  Death, Country, Departure

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• My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

  Tony Campolo

  Israel, Want, Theology

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• Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

  Zach Wamp

  School, Government, Way

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• Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

  Allen West

  Thinking, Law, Needs

  "West on Issues Facing America". "Your World Cavut" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2010.

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• In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

  John J. Sweeney

  Nike, United States, Economy

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• Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Country, Travel, Long

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

  Walter Benjamin

  Memories, Passion, Chaos

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.486, Harvard University Press

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• Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

  Chris Cannon

  Integrity, Cities, Broken

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• We need to make sure we have secure borders.

  Bob Corker

  Needs, Secure

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• Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.

  Michael Steele

  Country, People, Important

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• Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

  Alexander Herzen

  Childhood, Insanity, Individualism

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• Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

  Jacques Chirac

  War, Politics, Systematic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Country, Looks, Court

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• Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders

  John Culberson

  America, Authority, Resources

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• There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

  Stephen Harper

  Unique, Thinking, Culture

  Newsmagazine Report, January 07, 2002.

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• More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.

  Nick Lampson

  Fighting, Air, Sea

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• Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

  Gerald of Wales

  Evil, Mind, Quality

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• In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Thinking, Drug

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• 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

  Water, Needs, Cooperation

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• Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

  Ken Jennings

  Powerful, Government, Ethnicity

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.

  Alcee Hastings

  Israel, Goal, Soldier

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• 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

  School, Dark, Court Judges

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• I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Ocean, Vacation, Two

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