Borders Quotes

• Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Environmental
  • Borders
  • Border Security

• I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Should
  • Individual
  • Adventurous

• We conducted talks on border issues with our friends in the People's Republic of China for 40 years. There were also issues related to specific territories.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Issues
  • China

• Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sleep
  • Land
  • Borders

• When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!

  

  Tommy Chong
  • World
  • Pot
  • Sneak

• Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Borders
  • Palestine
  • Identification

• I would be happy if I could meet some musicians interested in different acoustics and traditional music. Maybe I will find some Native American or Latin tunes. Anything. Even maybe a great heavy metal guitar player or drummer, and we can do something wild together. My next step is making more music without formats or borders. Not just simple songs or doing covers, but music with more ideas. I think it will again be a synthesis with something else.

  

  Albert Kuvezin
  • Music
  • Borders
  • Traditional

• You know how Mexican restaurants always have "border" in the name: Border Grill, Border Cafe. You wouldn't do that to black people: Kunta's Kitchen or Shackles. They don't do it to white people. You don't see the Honkey Grill, the Cracker Barrel... oh, nevermind.

  

  George Lopez
  • Funny
  • Kitchen
  • Mexican

• I think it is important that we should be on the side of keeping borders open with respect to trade and movement of factors of production.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • To Be
  • Trade
  • Side

• You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mean
  • Clear
  • Separation

• Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.

  

  Steve Israel
  • Immigration
  • Crosses
  • Illegal

• People are not unattainable anymore and the borders of the world are open. It’s also nice to see that there are many people, especially from the newer generations, that want to have a positive impact on our society and take matters into their own hands.

  

  Noémie Wolfs
  • Impact
  • Generations
  • Borders

• Let's say Donald Trump wins. Is Congress going to let him build a wall on the Mexican border? I don't think so.

  

  Gary Shilling
  • Congress
  • Borders

• More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.

  

  Nick Lampson
  • Enemy
  • Protection
  • Borders

• If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth...

  

  Anousheh Ansari
  • Earth
  • Perspective
  • See

• I know that many Danes are worried about the future. Worried about jobs, about open borders. About whether we can find a balance in immigration policy.

  

  Mette Frederiksen
  • Future
  • Balance
  • Jobs

• When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

  

  Mike Johanns
  • Partners
  • Trading
  • Beef

• There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

  

  Mike Johanns
  • Country
  • Amount
  • Momentum

• The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.

  

  William Gibson
  • Reading
  • Purpose
  • Bookstores

• Russia has long recognized the borders of today's Ukraine. By and large, we have completed our talks on the border. Now we have to deal with the demarcation, but this is a technical issue.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Long
  • Today
  • Deals

• Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.

  

  William Schaffner
  • Moving
  • Doctors
  • Percent

• Radiation doesn't recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates the radiation everywhere. Water quality is affected. We all eat the same fish. We use products from all over the world - if something is contaminated, it will cause harm.

  

  Wladimir Klitschko
  • World
  • Danger
  • Radiation

• No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Country
  • Borders
  • Altruism

• There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was nothing at all. Then, at least, no one would have began asking why there was nothing.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Chance
  • Impossible
  • Exists

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