Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I…

I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and…

— Angelina Jolie

The refugees are not only going to be a demand on the country's resources, but also the refugees raise the possibility that the countries…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

— John McCain

Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of…

— Adam Hochschild

We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a post-disaster or…

— Cameron Sinclair

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why…

— Yanis Varoufakis

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We…

— Isabel Allende

Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary…

— Antonio Guterres

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a…

— Hong Chau

Refugees are threatening, not just to Americans, but also in many countries the world over. And it's partially because, unlike immigrants, refugees do not…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They…

— Elie Wiesel

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

— Khaled Hosseini

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind…

— Scott Simon

I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees. Today, as you are aware, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the…

— Michael Hudson