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A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Ronald Reagan
A state lacking jurisdiction over its boundaries is not an independent nation.
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In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.
Salman Rushdie
3.
Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.
Nizar Qabbani
'Our adversaries did not breach our boundaries; They infiltrated our frailties like insects.'
4.
Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.
Dick Thornburgh
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Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
Anna Lindh
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In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.
Joe Baca
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All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.
Khalil Gibran
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I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
Edward Blake
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With the grace of Prophet Muhammed and Allah, almost all Hindus in Calicut are converted to Islam. Only a few are still not converted on the borders of Cochin State. I am determined to convert them also very soon. I consider this as Jehad to achieve that object.
Tipu Sultan
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I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians are more to blame for this.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.
Michael Bloomberg
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When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.
Hayao Miyazaki
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I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.
Gavin McInnes
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I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.
Jeb Bush
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The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.
Jerome Corsi
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Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality
Iris Marion Young
20.
I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
Bela Karolyi
21.
Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.
Walter Winchell
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In America, establishment politicians have betrayed our workers, they've betrayed our borders and, most of all, they've betrayed our freedoms.
Donald Trump
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I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.
Nick Lampson
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But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.
Ronald Reagan
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
Emile M. Cioran
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
Fatos Nano
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The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.
Sandra Cisneros
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Let's end the unworkable marijuana prohibition and put our money where our mouth is. Let's solve the problems like border crime. We can do it with pot legalization.
Gary Johnson
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Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.
John O. Brennan
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I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
Tyra Banks
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It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.
Amy Purdy
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Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
Richard Attias
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Let our hearts touch far horizons.
Let our love know no borders,
Draw the Circles wide until,
No one stands alone.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.
Sarah
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Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.
Marcel Marceau
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Historically, and since, 1520, eighteen Treaties have been concluded between the Persian State and its western neighbours regarding its relations therewith including the question of borders. On all occasions, the Persian State chose the opportunity to violate the said Treaties whether by word or deed.
Saddam Hussein
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This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.
Benjamin Zephaniah
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
Otto von Bismarck
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"The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this: "Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah" (i.e. Islam). As such the Islamic concept of peace, meaning making the whole world Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was inevitable and unavoidable that the conflict would eventually reach our borders, and so it has."
Vernon Richards
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The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.
Abdullah Ocalan
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Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him.
Jeff Sessions
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Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
George Steiner
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I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Nelson Mandela
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If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.
Pat Buchanan
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We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage......w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.
John Diefenbaker
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A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
Daniel Defoe
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Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
Warren Christopher
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Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.
Allen West