Noam Chomsky Quotes

I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.

The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

There is not going to be a border. There will be a free movement of people just like the free movement of goods.

We have not addressed the effects of global economics where we are the only free traders in town.

The rich world has lots of well-paying jobs and an aging population that cannot fill them. The poor world has desperate workers. But while goods and capital can easily cross borders, modern labor cannot.

When democracy creates wealth on a broad scale there is no tension between it and capitalism. But when that is not the case, the value of democracy becomes less clear to some. There are tremendous tensions between democratic national sovereignty, open global markets and mass migration.

This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way the traffic flows. Add impediments, the traffic endeavors to flow around them. Eilimate disparity. the traffic stops.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.

Stop illegal immigration. Stop these trade deals that are taking jobs from Americans. Build an economy that works for the people at the bottom, not just the ones at the top.

There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind - and we have to take those concerns seriously and address them. But the answer isn't to turn inward and embrace protectionism. We can't just walk away from trade.

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

One of the greatest gifts that our founders bestowed upon us is open borders … the founders gave us one of the largest free trade zones that man has ever seen.

Free trade is not just an economic opportunity, it is a moral imperative:

No fence has ever been able to stop history, much less a border fence…. A 10 foot fence only takes an 11 foot ladder to scale it.

Globalization punctures borders.

Free trade is good for all countries but not necessarily good for all peoples in all countries.

No free people can for long cling to any privilege or enjoy any safety in economic solitude.

The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.

Our borders are being overrun.

You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall.

What 'Clandestino' is talking about is problems of borders, and more and more hermetic borders all around the world.

I am actually an open borders kind of guy.

This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of World War II to the extraordinary events of the end of the Cold War and a system that was one of prosperity and peace for a lot of people, including for the United States.