Refugee Quotes · Page 15

President Trump talks about extreme vetting, and we actually do have extreme vetting when it comes to refugee resettlement. Refugee resettlement is…

— Jeh Johnson

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign posted a pretty clever online quiz that makes a similar point with the Republican presidential field. Who said…

— Chris Hayes

I probably wouldn't have made it this far if I were a refugee.

— Angelina Jolie

I hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not…

— Donald Trump

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

— Tony Abbott

It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't…

— Mano Khalil

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

— Chris Cleave

Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge…

— John le Carre

[The Dutch] people want [refugees to be safe] but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that…

— Geert Wilders

Where refugees seek deliverance that never comesAnd the heart consumes itself as if it would live,Where children age before their timeAnd life…

— Howard Thurman

You bring up identity politics and I think that this is really causing a divide in the American left where we're rallying…

— Sam Rasoul

There's evidence that one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe posing as a refugee.

— Audie Cornish

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

— Kofi Annan

Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done…

— Walter Russell Mead

Refugees cost us money too when they come to us. If we improve their living conditions in Turkey, we create an incentive…

— Martin Schulz

We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well…

— Alice Schwarzer

“But in our camp, his story was everyone’s story, a single tale of dispossession, of being stripped to the bones of one’s…

— Susan Abulhawa

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like…

— Haruki Murakami

I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world.…

— Angelina Jolie

It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part…

— Kapil Sharma

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with…

— Angelina Jolie

Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment,…

— Cleve Jones

Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and…

— Barack Obama

Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and…

— M.I.A

Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.

— Louis Farrakhan