The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Why a slow death in a strange country if you can die on the threshold of your own house? Refugees don't exist.… — Ad De Bont Copy Share Image
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“But if the world measures a refugee according to the worst story, we will always excuse human suffering, saying it is not… — Victoria Armour-Hileman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't know the political solution to ending the conflict in those countries that refugees escape from. The only thing I know… — Bianca Balti Copy Share Image
People have accused me at times of having too big of a heart.But I have to also to say I must keep… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora,… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
“You know, people only travel really with their seeds, and with their songs. In Bosnia they interviewed a lot of refugees... they'd… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Leftists put in these emotional, illogical, and irrelevant terms, and they make people's hearts melt, "He's so wonderful. He cares about people."… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
In Greece, refugees are being waved through to the heart of Europe. That is simply unacceptable in the long run. The European… — Sebastian Kurz Copy Share Image
The first thing Syrian refugees want is to be able to live within Syria. That means help, humanitarian help, the way we… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
“the refugees leave a refuge, enter a refuge run to the windows, what they see makes them move on, they move, refuge… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to feel that refugees are a… — Sonny Bill Williams Copy Share Image
We see everything, we see what's going on in Syria, we see what's going on with the refugees. What can you do… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
Heroes and Refugees are both but products of war depending on how they responded to the situation. Challenges will always be around,… — Jaison Ndlovu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the only one speaking up for the refugees. I get all these comments from people saying, 'Thanks… — Til Schweiger Copy Share Image
We've been talking about the Syrian refugee crisis a lot, in the news in the U.K. and possibly the U.S., but it… — Nadine Shah Copy Share Image
My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
I don't even blame pseudo-refugees for trying to have a better life in Holland. I blame our government for allowing it to… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“They are hedonic refugees, moving to a new land, a new culture, because they are happier there. Usually, hedonic refugees have an… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Under the best conditions, disasters and plagues did that. It wasn’t universally true. There would always be hoarders and price gouging, people… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Politicians have been spreading fear, saying if we're letting in refugees, we're letting in terrorists. It's not the truth. We've got to… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
“He carries home in the way he walks: an elegant, loose strut. He wears home on his skin in the form of… — Diriye Osman Copy Share Image
Germany has got to deal with its global responsibilities in a mature way. There has been insufficient thought to immigration law, and… — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place… — Danny Danon Copy Share Image