Borders Quotes - Page 7

• When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Gun, Wire

  "Paul: Immigration not solved by barbed wire, guns" by Beth Fouhy, www.deseretnews.com. February 1, 2012.

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• I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Joining In, Law

  "TRANSCRIPT: Fox News-Google GOP Debate". www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say, oh, let's build a fence and be done with it, wipe our hands, it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

  Rick Perry

  Reality, Hands, Ideas

  "Interview with Presidential Candidate Rick Perry". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 3, 2011.

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• Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

  John Podhoretz

  America, Choices, Doubt

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• The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.

  Lucy Powell

  Impact, Seems

  "A good night for Labour - phew!" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.

  Vladimir Putin

  Ocean, Moving, Russia

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• In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

  ASAP Rocky

  White, Black, Asian

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• In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

  Salman Rushdie

  India And Pakistan, Kashmir, Guarantees

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• Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Men, Mountain

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• India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

  Hu Shih

  Soldier, Independence, India

  "Consolation of Mind". Book by H. K. Suhas, p. 111, 2004.

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• I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

  Kevin Smith

  Devil, Fans, Jersey

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• I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Height, Mania

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

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• Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Art, Flower, Civilization

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• Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.

  Jon Stewart

  Strong, Army, Names

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• You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

  John Stossel

  Country, Army, Crosses

  "Is Ron Paul Hurting the Libertarian Movement?". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.

  James Surowiecki

  Immigration, Reform, Wages

  "Immigration Reform and the American Worker". www.newyorker.com. February 21, 2013.

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• I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.

  Daniel Tammet

  Contentment, Kind, Clear

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• Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.

  Scott Thompson

  Gay, Thinking, July

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• My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

  Donald Tusk

  People, Communist, Nazi

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• We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Believe, Play, India And Pakistan

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• Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

  Allen West

  Book, Law, Immigration

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• Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you'd gone the other way, death would have been a different home.

  Jackie Kay

  Death, Home, Land

  Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• We have a lot of work to do and I‘m afraid that it‘s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.

  John McCain

  Stupid, Struggle, Silly

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. July 22, 2008.

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• I fly like paper, get high like planes
  If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name

  M.I.A.

  Names, Hip Hop, Getting High

  Song: Paper Planes, Album: Kala

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• I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.

  Yash Chopra

  Believe, Thinking, Lahore

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

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