Anna Louise Strong Quotes

The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] also highlighted the need to address general humanitarian issues. We already mentioned one of these issues: visa-free travel by Japanese citizens to the South Kuril Islands.

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

Mexico is an important country for the U.S. We should not forget that.

In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter - Czarist Russia and the Ottomans. Anywhere else, you could come and go as you pleased.

Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.

Since when is it against the law to meet with people from another country?

I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

We do have every interest in maintaining the friendliest possible relations with Mexicans from all legitimate political walks of life.

The U.K. has always had a special relationship with the E.U.

Canada has as much or more control of the border than we do. Getting into Mexico is a lot easier than getting into Canada.

Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passports, even though flying may appear to be the most obvious way to flee. For one thing, security procedures at airports are far stricter than at land borders.

I was just wondering if I'd ever get a visa to go to the U.S. Probably not.

I got my first passport in 1989, when I was 28.

The inhumane treatment of families turned an immigration issue into an immigration crisis.

On November 13, 2005, as I was flying into Moscow from a weekend away, I was stopped at Sheremetyevo airport, detained for 15 hours, deported, and declared a threat to national security.

I have a few travel restrictions, so I'm not even sure if I can get into America. So I have some limitations on what I can do.

I don't have a visa. The only thing I can do where I can leave the country and come back is if I get married.

In my judgment, us assisting the Chinese military in advancing technologically is not in U.S. national interests.

How can I care about needing a visa to travel if the furthest I'm going to travel is the town centre? For a person to care about Brexit - it's only for people who are in a certain state of mind.

Our Cuba policy was a major obstacle to getting things done in the hemisphere and a source of tension around the world.

We spend on average 220 days of the year out of the country. It's a long time to be away from your family especially when your children are growing up.

There are women crossing the border, finding border control agents to turn themselves in so they can begin the process of asylum, only to have their children taken from them with no idea of where they're going or when they'll see them again.

Saudi Arabia is an important country to the United States.