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  • In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers. -- Michelle Malkin
  • Money is not everything. There's Master card & Visa. -- Stephen Hawking
  • It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa. -- John Oliver
  • Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills. -- Sophie Kinsella
  • We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. -- Julie Burchill
  • The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does. -- Michael Gerson
  • When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa. -- Sofia Vergara
  • I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s. -- Lady Starlight
  • So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused. -- Anna Louise Strong
  • I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. -- Ian Mckellen
  • I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express. -- Stephen Colbert
  • I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.' -- Lizzie Brochere
  • So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning? -- Chuck Woolery
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  • I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that. -- Carly Fiorina
  • The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country. -- Bill Jenkins
  • At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Since Russia has the largest number of illegal immigrants, second only to the US, and immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs, I'm calling for a visa requirement for all those wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. -- Alexei Navalny
  • We think Facebook and Google know a lot about us - who knows more about us than AmEx, MasterCard and Visa? They know exactly what we spend and where we spent it... so they're looking at ways to unlock it. -- Anthony Goldbloom
  • If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens. -- Alex Garland
  • Many South Africans qualify for working visas in the UK and are keen to experience working and living overseas. However, more and more young people are rebelling against the materialistic 'me' generation and are keen to find meaningful work during their stay. -- Susan Harris
  • They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there. -- Bill Janklow
  • To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is. -- Jan Struther
  • I just recently had my Visa card stolen. Right now, it's everywhere I want to be. -- Scott Wood
  • Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards. -- Thomas Friedman
  • If you default on your Visa bill, nobody comes to repossess your refrigerator or auction off your shoes. The biggest penalty you'll face is trouble getting future credit. -- Virginia Postrel
  • If you owe too much on American Express, and your Diner's Club notes are too hard, take a loan on your Visa, and pay it off with your MasterCard! -- Nipsey Russell
  • Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time. -- Lisi Harrison
  • I hate my Visa card but have to use it for diesel, insurance and big items. I prefer paying by cash whenever possible because that way I feel as if I've got a better grasp on what I'm spending. -- Geoff Capes
  • New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa. -- Mallory Factor
  • You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal. -- Tony Abbott
  • I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long. -- Jean-Luc Godard
  • The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico. -- Heather Wilson
  • I have watched Muslims chant 'Death to America!' on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a visa to the United States. -- Reza Aslan
  • To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa. -- Abbas Kiarostami
  • The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck. -- Bob Goodlatte
  • An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance. -- Wole Soyinka
  • Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies face a backlash by anti-immigrant groups for hiring foreigners. So they do it only because they have to. -- Vivek Wadhwa
  • You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start companies. -- Vivek Wadhwa
  • Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like. -- Tony Hillerman
  • The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed. -- Nastia Liukin
  • We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact. -- Theresa May
  • The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function. -- Elliott Abrams
  • People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it. -- Paul Theroux
  • Music does not need a visa to enter your heart. -- Sukant Ratnakar
  • A healthy mind breeds a healthy body and visa versa! -- Zig Ziglar
  • Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it. -- Swoosie Kurtz
  • We must send a message that visa expiration dates will be strongly enforced. -- Donald Trump
  • Nowadays, Cubans who enter from Cuba with a visa do not receive any aid. -- Marco Rubio
  • PIO card holders- they have lot of visa issues. We decided they will get lifelong visa. -- Narendra Modi
  • At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal. -- Jeff Sessions
  • I need a visa in almost 38 countries, which means an American has more access into Africa than myself. -- Aliko Dangote
  • It's really hard as a Canadian actor to make a footprint in the States, because of the visa stuff. -- Shenae Grimes
  • Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa. -- Chuck Todd
  • I will make such a wonderful India that all Americans will stand in line to get a visa for India -- Narendra Modi
  • Beyond violating our laws, visa overstays, pose - and they really are a big problem, pose a substantial threat to national security. -- Donald Trump
  • If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it. -- Abbas Kiarostami
  • If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied. -- Tomas Borge
  • I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back. -- Ai Weiwei
  • Melania Trump has not said what kind of visa she had, and her husband's campaign did not respond to NPR's inquiries before broadcast. -- Melania Trump
  • It is not true that I contemplated going to London or obtaining a visa. The purpose of such rumours is to tarnish [my reputation]. -- Osama bin Laden
  • Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements. -- Sergei Lavrov
  • While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving. -- Nicki Chapman
  • Each government minister views the circumstances of each issue differently. An interior minister has a different view of visa liberalization than does a foreign minister. -- Thomas de Maiziere
  • [Michael] Felix and other immigration attorneys say it's possible [Melania] Trump was doing what a lot of models do - working illegally on a tourist visa. -- Melania Trump
  • Every time I ask for visa, they (USA) give me visa for five years. I have never had any problem in getting a visa to any nation. -- Mother Teresa
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  • We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are? -- Rand Paul
  • Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be? -- Sophie Kinsella
  • When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it. -- Swoosie Kurtz
  • Some actors are brilliant in David Mamet, but they would crash and burn in my plays and visa-versa. You either have my music in your body, or you don't. -- John Patrick Shanley
  • But when you come to Heritage USA, remember to bring your Bible and your VISA card - because the Bible is the Holy Truth, and God doesnt take American Express -- Jim Bakker
  • There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules? -- Rand Paul
  • 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. -- Vladimir Putin
  • The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country. -- Bill Jenkins
  • The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here. -- Alexi Lalas
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  • I never thought to stay here without papers. I had visa. I travel every few months back to the country, to Slovenia, to stamp the visa. I came back. I apply for the green card. -- Melania Trump
  • I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble. -- Jens Lekman
  • I have a dream of getting a visa, which is a dream that many people have so they can leave their countries to come someplace else, specifically they want to come to the United States. -- Juan Luis Guerra
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