Pete Doherty Quotes

Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

I can't leave England.

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

To enter the U.K., you have to show your passport - whoever you are, wherever you're from - and you always will. That's because we have opted out of the passport-free Schengen area and have retained full control over who comes in.

As we leave the E.U., freedom of movement falls away, because it's an E.U. rule... What we then have to say is, 'What then is on the blank piece of paper that is an immigration policy?'

I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.

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.

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.

I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.

I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.

Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.

What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.

If I am prime minister, we will come out of the European Union, and part of that will be control of free movement.

If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will... undoubtedly be the end of Schengen, the return of national borders.

I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.

It is essential for our national security to know who resides within our borders.

Calling into question the Touquet deal on the pretext that Britain has voted for Brexit and will have to start negotiations to leave the union doesn't make sense.

We need to bring control into movement of people coming into the U.K. from the E.U.

I fear a very hard Brexit, but I hope we will find a better solution.

The negotiations on the future of the U.K. and the E.U. must be led... in the interest of our citizens.

The U.K. voted for Brexit and a lot of weak-willed, lily-livered people will say 'yeah but the people did not know what they were voting for, they had no idea of what this was going to entail.' Those are the people who are saying 'lets get a second referendum, let's make the people aware this time that there is, in fact, a lot more to this.'

As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and is managed in their interests.

What we've done as a country is, we've said we owe it to our citizens to know who is traveling here and if they intend to do us harm.

So much of the agenda behind Brexit has been murky.