Borders Quotes - Page 38

• When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Art, Alive, Imagine

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Our World, Life And Death, Lines

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• Every sovereign country has the right to control its borders, and should. The idea that anyone would sneak over our borders without proper documentation to me is absolutely abhorrent.

  Mark Helprin

  Country, Ideas, Sovereign

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we could have guest workers. But we have to face that issue. What is it that we want to do? Rather than not facing it, and having porous borders, and the effect is that it disempowers the unions.

  Mark Helprin

  Depressing, Should Have, Issues

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place.

  Margaret Cho

  Mom, Children, Believe

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• Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

  Deepak Chopra

  Vision, Noble, World

  "Why Globalism Is a Victory for You" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

  Eric Clapton

  Mean, Guitar, People

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• For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Issues, Long

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• You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

  Gail Collins

  Jobs, Law, Ideas

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 03, 2013.

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• One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

  Ted Cruz

  Taken, Responsibility, Government

  "Ted Cruz Puts Dewhurst on Defensive in Last Debate Before Texas Runoff" by Roque Planas, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2012.

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• The Internet knows no national borders.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Internet, Knows, National Borders

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• It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

  Carly Fiorina

  Jobs, Government, Secure

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2010.

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• Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

  Janet Frame

  Writing, Years, Land

  Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Simple, People, Stuff

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• We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, under full Palestinian sovereignty, we will support it.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Dream, Real, Independent

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• Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel of 1967? Which borders and which Israel? Israel has to recognize first the Palestinian state and its borders and then we will know what we are talking about.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Israel, Talking, Firsts

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• I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

  Duncan Hunter

  Thinking, Issues, Immigration

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• I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.

  Nick Lampson

  Mass Destruction, Radiation, Weapons

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• My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.

  Queen Latifah

  Horse, House, Peaceful

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• I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

  Norman MacCaig

  Rivers, Fish Tanks, Used

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• I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

  Lee Majors

  Virginia, Tennessee, Littles

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• Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.

  Susana Martinez

  Girl, Growing Up, America

  New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez's speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.

  Tom Metzger

  Blood, Realistic, Negotiation

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• When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally so I jumped the border. I didn’t speak any English.

  Cesar Millan

  Years, America, Age

  "Cesar Millan: Jumping The U.S. Border Led To A Successful Career As Dog Trainer And TV Star". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2012.

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• If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

  Dave Mustaine

  Wall, Mexican Border, President

  "Megadeth Frontman Dave Mustaine Endorses Rick Santorum" by David Sessions, www.thedailybeast.com. February 15, 2012.

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