Migration Quotes

• Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.

  

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
  • Law
  • Prayer
  • Citizens

• What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Problem
  • Economy
  • Consequences

• The migratory movement is at once perpetual, partial and universal. It never ceases, it affects every people … and although at a given moment it sets in motion only a small number of each population … in fact there is never a moment of immobility for any people, because no migration remains isolated.

  

  Eugene M. Kulischer
  • Movement
  • Population
  • Immobility

• The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

  

  Theresa May
  • Relationship
  • Principles
  • British Society

• In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Needs
  • Able
  • Order

• The modern age did not so much invent new forms of migration as alter drastically the means and conditions of the old forms.

  

  Eugene M. Kulischer
  • Conditions
  • Invent
  • Migration

• We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.

  

  William L. Swing
  • People
  • Giving
  • Should

• Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think, we will have something scientifically sound that says something about this phenomenon. The study is ongoing, and I hope that, with a push from both of us, it will provide a sound basis for serious public discussion on the migration issue.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Problem
  • Phenomenon
  • Governments

• You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna? They must have known on some level that that is where they would flourish. It's what biologists call "selective migration."

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Reason
  • Migration
  • Vienna

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