Borders Quotes

We all agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants. We are a generous and welcoming people, here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.

The borders of Islam are bloody.

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

Poor Wilson did not understand that a frontier which is not defended with bayonets, force and honor cannot be secured by any other principle.

The country was made without lines of demarcation and it is nobody's business to create them.

Because of Congress’s failure to act, States like Arizona have no choice but to take a strong action to discourage the further flow of illegal immigration through our borders.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

A nation cannot choose its neighbors.

Another factor aggravating the isolation of the South American republics one from another is that in almost every instance their centers of population and of industrial development are distant from their frontiers. Moreover, the border zones between the different countries are, with few exceptions, wildernesses of mountains, desert or jungle. The Andes Mountains not only present a natural barrier which stretches the length of the continent between the east and west coast countries, but they also act to keep apart Pacific coast nations such as Peru and Ecuador.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa.

Unfortunately, you need to keep Italian Roma in Italy.

Me myself, I'm not a big fan of the idea of countries.

Apathy borders upon folly.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

Bad neighbors will keep cartographers busy well into the next century.

No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.

The simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own boarders.

The boundaries of Sparta are on the points of our spears…. No Spartan woman has ever seen the smoke of the enemy’s camp..

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

[Vladimir] Putin trampled on international rules and sovereignty of the Ukraine.