273 Quotes About Borders

  • Author Janet Napolitano
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    What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.

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  • Author Janet Napolitano
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    Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure they have the technology to make it work

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  • Author Randy Neugebauer
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    The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

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  • Author Michael Ondaatje
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    There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

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  • Author Jim Pierce
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    What we're trying to do is maintain the character, the feeling of downtown. That way someone can't just swoop in, build a building to its borders and then take off.

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  • Author Rand Paul
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    There was a conservative consensus for an amendment I put forward called Trust, But Verify that would have strengthened border security on both refugees, students and those coming here. And Marco sided and I guess was more sympathetic to Chuck Schumer and to the president than he was to conservative principles.

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  • Author Shivraj Patil
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    For long, the two unmanned borders have presented opportunity to forces inimical to the country's interest to further their nefarious designs through subversion, militant and fundamentalist activities.

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