Borders Quotes

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan

Age, Through, Modern

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Nelson Mandela

Cannot, Within, Israel

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
Tyra Banks

Past, Try, Push

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.
Deepak Chopra

Good, Free, Vision

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall

Death, Birth, Stands

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
Emil Zatopek

Men, Pain, Suffering

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
Willie Nelson

Music, Down, Country

Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.
Susan Orlean

Happy, Bad, Hard

I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.
Susan Orlean

Books, Bankruptcy, Somewhat

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
Ralph Nader

Political, America, Stop

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin

Passion, Memories, Chaos

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

Problems, Nation, Stop

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.
John Podhoretz

Leadership, Doubt, Him

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

Legal, Person, Control

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
Tony Campolo

God, Why, Nation

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
Marc Andreessen

Business, Single, Rise

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Country, Beyond, Courts

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
Sandra Day O'Connor

School, Judge, Law

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
Sherman Alexie

Life, Live, Her

Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.
Allen West

Laws, Secure, Attrition

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.
Stephen Harper

Unique, Culture, Ways

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
Ron Wyden

Health, Today, Help

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
Norman Mailer

Democracy, Far, Until

Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.
Michael Steele

Business, Care, Important

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.
Tom Tancredo

Control, Choose

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.
Dick Cheney

Home, Struggle, Here

The Internet knows no national borders.
Alan Dershowitz

Knows, National, Internet

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.
Cat Cora

Humanity, After, Able

This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.
John Boehner

Law, Both, Simply

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
Dario Fo

Talk, Social, Dangerous

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