It has never been illegal to be a refugee.

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.…

— Ed Koch

[Hillary Clinton] is been honest about how many people she wants to enter the country unquestioned, unvetted, both illegal immigrants and refugees.

— Rush Limbaugh

In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they…

— Deborah Ellis

I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who…

— Alek Wek

What I am learning from my experience as someone who grew up as a refugee, who became French, and then became American is that…

— Yasmine Elmasri

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 lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States. At last,…

— Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

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

We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of…

— Judith Butler

We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.

— Phyllis Bennis

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans…

— Condoleezza Rice

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