Borders Quotes - Page 31

• In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.

  Laura Mullen

  Museums, Texas, Confusing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Cities, Immigration

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• 'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"

  Richard Rodriguez

  Block, Mean, Ghetto

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.

  Juan Enriquez

  Years, Today, Three

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

  Juan Enriquez

  Lasts, Panama, Continents

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I have a dog that loves to fight. It's a border collie, and they fight low to the ground. Other dogs are terrified of my dog, because he gets low and goes for the balls.

  Jeremy Hotz

  Dog, Fighting, Balls

  "Five Minutes With Jeremy Hotz". Interview with Rick Chandler, deadspin.com. February 05, 2007.

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• Well, we're [USA] not looking for an ally; what we're looking for is a stable, democratic government that is not beholden to anyone in the region and is able to be secure within its own borders and have its own policy.

  Joe Biden

  Government, Usa, Allies

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• First of all, there are Persians and Arabs. The fact they share a religion, a Shiite religion, does not mean that they're close. It doesn't work that way. There is a relationship because there is a long border. There is going to be trade between them. They should have a relationship. They want to make sure that - though, that there is no undue influence coming from Iran or any other country in the region.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Mean, Iran

  "Transcript: Interview With Joe Biden". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.wbur.org. December 13, 2011.

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• In my state [ Maryland] we've lost jobs to NAFTA, we did not gain jobs from NAFTA. But I think it's very difficult when your state is right up against the northern border, you do see things differently.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Jobs, Thinking, Gains

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• If you look at China - and frankly, Vietnam now is doing a big number, and you look at Japan and India and Mexico - Mexico's killing us at the border and they're killing us with trade.

  Donald Trump

  Japan, Numbers, India

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The reason Donald Trump has supporters... I can go through the list for you. The issues are border/immigration, jobs, military, "make America great again..."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Military, America

  "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.

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• Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah. When the border closes each evening around six o' clock, the soldiers on each side do these amazing high-stepping peacock march-offs (like a dance-off). The displays are almost identical on each side and thousands gather to watch them. Though they're patrolling along their separate borders, what comes across is how similar they are.

  Matthea Harvey

  India And Pakistan, Soldier, Watches

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.

  Matthea Harvey

  Talking, Political, Division

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.

  Matthea Harvey

  Grandmother, West Germany, Two

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think the desire to reject elites, to retreat within more comfortable geographic and personal borders and to lash out at political correctness is not a phenomenon unique to Britain or the US.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Unique, Thinking, Political

  "The Fix Live". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2016.

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• I don't think immigration is what's happening in our country. I think an invasion is what is happening, particularly southern border.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Thinking, Southern

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The promise to take back control of our borders. I will end free movement, introduce an Australian-style points-based system for immigration, and bring numbers down. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

  Michael Gove

  Numbers, Style, Promise

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Without the Turkey agreement, tens of thousands of refugees would still be stuck in Greece. The Commission presented proposals for securing Europe's external borders early on, but they languished in the Council for months. As you can see, the Commission isn't asleep. Oftentimes it has to wake up the others.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Agreement, Europe, Turkeys

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have always considered it to be a minor miracle that after the war, people in Europe's border regions were able to forget everything and, in accordance with the slogan "Never Again War," develop a program that still works today.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  War, Forget Everything, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.

  Raul Castillo

  Art, Community, Important

  "Looking Actor Raúl Castillo: Telling Human Stories". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him.

  Jeff Sessions

  Community, Mexico, Lawlessness

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• Ending the lawlessness at the border? I don't believe a fourth-generation Hispanic thinks that's evil. I don't think an African American thinks there's anything wrong with protecting their jobs for a change.

  Jeff Sessions

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed.

  Jeff Sessions

  Mind, Important, Agents

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• Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open borders and American people reject that.

  Jeff Sessions

  People, Argument, Violent

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's perfectly reasonable and responsible policy for any nation to maintain its sovereignty, to protect its borders. And [Donald] Trump does not believe in ending immigration. He's never proposed that.

  Jeff Sessions

  Believe, Immigration, Doe

  "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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