Borders Quotes - Page 24

• There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.

  Timothy Murphy

  Government, Mexican, Drug

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• A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.

  Timothy Murphy

  Cameras, Movement, Helping

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• Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.

  Timothy Murphy

  Jobs, Drug, Rays

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• The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

  John Linder

  Country, Voters, Holding On

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• The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.

  Mark Kennedy

  Real, Staffing, Resources

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• A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

  Duncan Hunter

  Israel, Effectiveness, Numbers

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• We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

  Timothy Murphy

  Technology, Government, Law

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• Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Philosophy, Medicine, Empowering

  "Knowledge". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• We for sure need to secure the border. I think we need to enforce the legal system. I'm not for amnesty, I'm not an advocate of the plans that have been pushed here in Washington... we need to find a way for people to have a legitimate legal immigration system in this country, and that doesn't mean amnesty.

  Scott Walker

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• You hear some people talk about border security and a wall and all that. To me, I don't know that you need any of that if you had a better, saner way to let people into the country in the first place.

  Scott Walker

  Country, Wall, People

  "Scott Walker backs path to citizenship, increased immigration" by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. July 3, 2013.

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• We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.

  Mark Levin

  Tired, Class, Sick

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• I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.

  Stephen King

  Children, Nice, Mean

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Growing Up, Native American, Illinois

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2005.

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• We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.

  Tucker Carlson

  Moral High Ground, Iraq, United States

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You cover the bad news about America. You do. But you don't get up in the morning hating your country. And so, until somebody shows me lines at the border trying to get out, I think there's some good news.

  Roger Ailes

  Country, Morning, Hate

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• The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.

  Thomas Traherne

  Essence, Soul, Matter

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• If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Believe, Enemy

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• Law and order embrace on hate's border.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Hate, Law, Order

  Kenneth Patchen (1968). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, p.486, New Directions Publishing

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• In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests.

  Chanakya

  Enemy, Done, Should

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• Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Allies, Immigration

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• American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

  Barack Obama

  People, Tradition, Permit

  "Former NATO Commander Reacts To Obama's Foreign Policy Speech". www.npr.org. May 28, 2014.

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• Border agents have now been issued air guns that shoot pepper balls at people coming across the Mexican border. Have they thought this through? Is that going to bother people from Mexico? Pepper balls? Don't these people eat jalapenos? Isn't that like firing meatballs at an Italian guy?

  Jay Leno

  Italian, Gun, Air

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• The Canadian Identity, it seems, is truly elusive only at home. Beyond the borders Canadians know exactly who they are, within they see themselves as part of a family, a street, a neighbourhood, a community, a province , a region, and on special occasions like Canada Day and Grey Cup weekend and, of course, during the Winter Olympics, a country called Canada. Beyond the borders, they pine; within the borders, they more often whine

  Roy MacGregor

  Country, Home, Winter

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• Definitely. Cate Blanchett or Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore - women that have no boundaries, no borders. They can do anything, They can be any character and you accept it and go with it as a viewer, and as an audience member. That's the kind of career that I'm looking for.

  Jessica Biel

  Character, Careers, Kind

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• All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.

  Khalil Gibran

  Distance, Creation, Equal

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