In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.
In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn't exist, borders don't exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me.
It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.
[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders.
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.
When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!
When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
One classic paper compared the effects of right-to-work laws on factory jobs in neighboring counties, on either side of a right-to-work border. It found that manufacturing grew 23. 1% faster between 1947 and 1992 on the anti-union side of the divide.
I decided that there is really some sort of entity that I call Imperial, and I decided to extend it all the way along the California-Mexico border and into Tijuana and then to the Pacific because it all has a similar feeling.
My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
You need demarcation. " "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.
I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.
Life begins only when we cross the borders and not definitely before!
They [ French] still have an open border in Europe. And they have a Europe which doesn't have an integrated intelligence system like we do in the United States.
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.
I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.
It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.
Certify border is secure; only then allow guest workers.