Home Country Quotes - Page 2

• Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from which they embarked - whether it be their home country or a stopover point - at the expense of the airline that brought them? All appeals would then be made from the country to which they have been returned.

  Ed Koch

  Country, Home, People

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• Because a person chooses to leave their home country and come to the United States does not necessarily mean they have the right to demand that their father or their other extended family members be allowed to come if they don't otherwise meet the standard.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, Father, Home

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• Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen

  Dick Cheney

  Country, Home, Gay

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• The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.'

  Nizar Qabbani

  Country, Home, Eye

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• And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Horse, Home

  Barack Obama's Speech at National Prayer Breakfast, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 5, 2015.

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• As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Country, Home, Kids

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• It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Home, Odd

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• If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.

  Agnieszka Radwanska

  Country, Home, Feel Good

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• The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Home, Kentucky

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• Anyway, a spokesman for Barack Obama says the prisoners that are released from Guantanamo will either be sent back to their home countries or enter the New York City cab driver training program.

  Jay Leno

  Country, New York, Home

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• Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American. Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Home, Texas

  Source: www.salon.com

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