Quotes About Asylum Seekers

#1. We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

Justine Larbalestier

#2. My brothers are retro-refugees in the new exile of the asylum-seekers' hostel.

Lidija Dimkovska

#3. Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name.

Malcolm Fraser

#4. Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

Julian Baggini

#5. In the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking ... Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

Antonio Guterres

#6. Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

Tony Abbott

#7. I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - THESE PEOPLE ARE COCKROACHES and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark.

Mark Collett

#8. We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.

Charles Kennedy

#9. Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.

Julie Bishop

#10. We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

Michael Howard

#11. 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.

Mark Rutte

#12. God knows what should be your priority and what should be beneficial for you

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

Ian Bannen

#14. There's not a thing in the world that will not change, including you.

Alexis M. Smith

#15. The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#16. high cash compensation teaches workers to claim value from the company as it already exists instead of investing their time to create new value in the future.

Peter Thiel

#17. Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts.

J.K. Rowling

#18. Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

George Clooney

#19. Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative.

Rajneesh

#20. If I say that I'm educated and was jobless in Dhaka, that I want to work here, build myself a healthy, beautiful life, the kind of life that everyone dreams of, they'd just throw me out of the country. Political asylum they may just allow, but economical asylum - never!

Taslima Nasrin