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"Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs"
"I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in."
"Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span."
"Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders."
"I think the Turks' willingness to take seriously action on the borders to stop the flow of foreign fighters joining ISIL is significant."
"Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier."
"Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning to become global. Before that the United States had been mostly a regional power - Britain was the biggest global power. After the Second World War, national security is everywhere, because we basically owned the world, so our security is threatened everywhere. Not just on our borders, but everywhere - so you have to have a thousand military bases around the world for "defense.""
"The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous."
"there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out."
"The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented."
"I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me."
"Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death."
"The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders."
"One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin."
"Falsehoods border on truths."
"Border security is a safety issue."
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him."
"Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere."
"American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders."
"[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders."
