Refugee Quotes · Page 3

We can't turn Italy into a refugee camp.

— Matteo Salvini

Our political document shows that we are prepared in the context of a national consensus to accept a state on the lines…

— Khaled Mashal

The West and its media have barely covered the recent wave of repression in Turkey. The reason is simple. They are paying…

— Tariq Ali

Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.

— Michael Bond

[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of…

— Yitzhak Rabin

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Every chance at destabilizing [Bashar] Assad... the bombing campaign causes a flood of refugees into Jordan, there's already half a million in…

— Rand Paul

I'm concerned, too, about ISIS' ability, right, to infiltrate people. But we have got some very effective, robust processes for vetting people.…

— Michael Morell

The quota idea is a good one, but there are two problems with it. The first is clear: A quota system would…

— Martin Schulz

Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.

— Michael T. Flynn

Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army?…

— Nora Roberts

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

— Rush Limbaugh

The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a…

— Martin Schulz

I think on all the debate on immigration, and all of that, the class of person that should be given the benefit…

— Preston Manning

After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to…

— Noam Chomsky

The United States is doing our part by increasing the number of refugees we resettle and I want again to commend Angela…

— Barack Obama

Music has as many roles as people make it. I traveled to Burma once years ago to witness the people's struggle for…

— Ani DiFranco

After Donald Trump`s ban all Muslims proposal, candidate Jeb Bush reacted by calling Mr. Trump unhinged. However, that would be the same…

— Rachel Maddow

I wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced…

— Sadako Ogata

You have to wear a different face when you're interacting with the larger culture. And you can be more of yourself at…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

When people go to a new country, whether as refugees or immigrants, kids usually assimilate easily, but it's much harder for the…

— Firoozeh Dumas

“I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look…

— Connie Chung

“Refugees are not like you and me. They are you and me. That terrible river of the wretched and damned flowing through…

— Richard Flanagan