Giuseppe Conte Quotes

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.

It shouldn't be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched American soil.

The children and families seeking asylum at our border deserve our immediate attention and humanitarian aid.

It is important that we return to the principles of the Dublin agreement and help Greece with European funds to accommodate refugees.

What mattered about Alan Kurdi's photograph was that it made Canadians very angry, and the Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats ended up competing with each other over which party was offering the most generous refugee policy.