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Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words. -- Angelina Jolie
Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet. -- David Letterman
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent. -- Isabel Allende
My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money. -- M.I.A.
Refugees cost us money too when they come to us. If we improve their living conditions in Turkey, we create an incentive for them to stay there and not to place their fates in the hands of smugglers. -- Martin Schulz
Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries. -- Gillian Cross
Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders to people that all the comforts that we take for granted can be taken away in just a moment. -- Nguyen Viet Thang
Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world. -- Ismail Haniyeh
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too. -- Nina Fedoroff
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees. -- Malala Yousafzai
When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country? -- Marco Rubio
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question. -- Richard Flanagan
The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do. -- Ted Turner
We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe. -- Fatos Nano
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before. -- Jon Lee Anderson
I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. -- Hugh Mackay
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. -- Loren Eiseley
Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees. -- Robert Winston
The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution. -- Danny Danon
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console. -- Dalai Lama
We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone. -- Jan Egeland
While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try to find some place of safety. I interviewed many families about what had happened to them and what they did as a result. -- Deborah Ellis
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. -- Mahmoud Abbas
While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event. -- George Packer
I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in the U.S. by farming. They are trained in a four-year program, at the end of which New Roots helps them find their own land to farm and live on. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists. -- Richard Engel
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. -- Noam Chomsky
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. -- James Wolcott
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style. -- James Wolcott
Syrian refugees are Trojan horses. -- Donald Trump
The way a government treats refugees is very instructive... -- Tony Benn
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If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist. -- Gamal Abdel Nasser
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity -- Pope Francis
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees, -- Elie Wiesel
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves. -- Chris Cleave
We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return -- David Ben-Gurion
66 percent of Americans agree in a temporary ban of refugees entering the United States! -- Sean Hannity
Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time. -- Donald Trump
The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead. -- Konrad Adenauer
I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have. -- Michael Leiter
I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees. -- Queen Noor of Jordan
There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees. -- Louis MacNeice
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present. -- Kofi Annan
In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees. -- Nguyen Viet Thang
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I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees. -- Martin Schulz
Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything. -- Khaled Hosseini
Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream. -- Joseph Sobran
Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return. -- David Ben-Gurion
There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State. -- Thomas de Maiziere
Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down, -- Sarah Hanson-Young
My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it. -- Geert Wilders
Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more. -- Michael T. Flynn
Hillary Clinton supports open borders, amnesty and even wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent. -- Mike Pence
Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees. -- Edith Cavell
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The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees." -- Bill McKibben
Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive. -- Angelina Jolie
Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees. -- Noam Chomsky
If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety. -- Angelina Jolie
Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity -- Julien Clerc
At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem. -- Khaled Hosseini
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. -- Elliott Carter
Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States. -- John McCain
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
The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them. -- Paul Virilio
[Hillary Clinton] is been honest about how many people she wants to enter the country unquestioned, unvetted, both illegal immigrants and refugees. -- Rush Limbaugh
[Hillary Clinton] is been honest about how many people she wants to enter the country unquestioned, unvetted, both illegal immigrants and refugees. -- Rush Limbaugh
Cubans must prove that they're political refugees. And if they can prove that they're really fleeing persecution, well, they would qualify as refugees. -- Marco Rubio
I am grateful to the Germans in general, particularly those who displayed unending dedication to the refugees and who continue to do so. -- Martin Schulz
The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism. -- Khaled Abou El Fadl
And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish. -- Martha Gellhorn
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss. -- Richard Flanagan
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the Eurozone. -- Michael Hudson
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees. -- Sunday Adelaja
The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families. -- Jane Goodall
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees. -- Haruki Murakami
I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always. -- Angelina Jolie
Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority. -- Greg Mortenson
Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts. -- Tony Abbott
It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to help refugees and aim vulnerable women and children. -- Khaled Hosseini
According to the reports we have gathered, mostly from the refugees, it appears that around 10,000 people have been killed in more than 100 massacres. The final toll may be much worse, -- Geoff Hoon
Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means? -- Scott Simon
We see everything, we see what's going on in Syria, we see what's going on with the refugees. What can you do about it? And we have to do something. -- Michal Rovner
On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed any new border security requirements for refugees or students. -- Ted Cruz
Only 4 percent of the people who live here [Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania] are actually foreign-born. And even fewer of those are refugees. So there's not a whole lot of experience with refugees here. -- Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees. -- Ted Cruz
I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees. -- Khaled Hosseini
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon. -- Walter Russell Mead
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon." -- Walter Russell Mead
The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy. -- Yanis Varoufakis
Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced. -- Antonio Guterres
Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply. -- Fatos Nano
There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world. -- Khaled Hosseini
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens. -- Pearl S. Buck
Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.This includes her [Hillary Clinton] plan to bring in 620,000 new refugees from Syria and that region over a short period of time. -- Donald Trump
I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to theirs. -- Kola Boof
I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything. -- Angelina Jolie
There are many refugees, if not more refugees inside the country than outside the country. There is also the question of working to aid us at the present moment when we are campaigning for elections. -- Robert Mugabe
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There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so. -- Khaled Hosseini

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