Adam Hochschild Quotes

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.

Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.

I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.

There are a lot of us that want to see limitations on refugee resettlement programs.

We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of our citizens.

Accepting Syrian refugees into the United States is an emotional issue.

We are a continent of refugees, and if you say we can't integrate refugees, that's not consistent with our values, even if borders cannot be wide open.

Since when can somebody tell me a time or a case where there has been a Syrian refugee in this country who has committed an act of terror?

We will seek... to set up an automatic, obligatory system to redistribute asylum-seekers.

We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.

We need to shift our focus from the debates about redistributing refugees within the E.U. and should concentrate more on external border protection.

It's very important that people understand that for refugees to come into the USA is very difficult. What upsets me about the whole situation is that people don't know the difference between a migrant and a refugee; they don't have respect for what people are coming from - the people who against it - and they have completely forgotten this is what built our country, the diversity. When it is put forward that masses of people are dangerous, and the actual numbers and the situation are proven to be completely the opposite of the way they're presented publicly, it's horrible.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

The screening in the United States is the toughest screening of any country in the world in terms of refugees, that accepts refugees. And of course there are those that don't accept any, or ever have, no matter what kind they are.

The United States is doing our part by increasing the number of refugees we resettle and I want again to commend Angela [Merkel], and more importantly, the German people for the extraordinary leadership and compassion that you have shown in the face of what I know is a very difficult challenge.

Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe do not go through anything like the rigorous process experienced by those who are coming to the States, and the volume of Syrians fleeing to Europe is orders of magnitude larger than it is to the United States.

What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.

As governor, my chief responsibility is to keep our state and people safe, which is why I have decided to oppose Arkansas being used as a relocation center for Syrian refugees.

Anne Richard, a senior U.S. State Department official, testified at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing in November 2015 that any Syrian refugee trying to get into the United States is scrutinized by officials from the National Counterterrorism Center, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, State Department and Pentagon.

We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.

No one is going to persuade me that eight people arriving in South Shields is going to overwhelm the local system. I think that 25,000 refugees would be more in line with the U.N. That would be a substantive contribution.

We are a compassionate nation, taking in the refugees and those, you know, fleeing, the huddled masses yearning to be free. This is something that's deeply ingrained in our hearts in the United States.

Forcing states to take refugees doesn't take Europe any further.

I believe we need to ensure there are no refugees placed in Arizona with connections to terrorist organizations.