“We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That influx of refugees wouldn't have stopped - on the contrary. It would have gone on and on and on, until there would have been an explosion. We were no longer able to control the arrival of those people, in our own interest we had to stop it! That's what I said to Mr.[Richard] Nixon, to all the other leaders I visited in an attempt to avert the war.”
![“At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror attacks and victims of those attacks in many areas of the world - in Europe and in the United States. We also never would have had such an urgent problem with…” quote by Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/285/vladimir-putin-261_areas_at-any-rate-those-problems-non-prolifera_1774264.jpg)
![“[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights to control their borders.” quote by Kofi Annan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b29/kofi-annan-799_accepting_refugees-cannot-be-stopped-but-they-can_849032.jpg)
![“The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f5/bill-ayers-1848_antiwar_the-vietnam-war-s-gone-on-for-three-year_2934124.jpg)
