Sebastian Kurz Quotes

We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The current system for admission of refugees with family ties in the U.S. is fraught with inconsistencies and discriminatory practices.

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

The scandal isn't that refugees want to come to the United States. It's that Trump is abusing these aspiring Americans and closing our doors to them.

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

America has a long and proud history of providing safe harbor for refugees. We must continue to do so, but in a way that keeps America safe.

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.

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.

The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point to say it's not just a security issue. It's also an economic issue.

America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees.

In Greece, refugees are being waved through to the heart of Europe. That is simply unacceptable in the long run. The European Union cannot act like a human trafficker.

European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.

Germany has got to deal with its global responsibilities in a mature way. There has been insufficient thought to immigration law, and we need to differentiate between different kinds of migrants. There are valid refugees whose lives are at risk at home.

We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.

Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.

Luckily, Europe, step by step, recognised that these mass refugee movements to Europe cannot work.

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

A lot of the Democratic base believes that it's the right the to do to bring as many of these refugees in as possible for - there are many members of the Democratic Party who may think that tens of thousands are not enough, and we're not doing our part until we bring in even more.