Top 651 Vietnamese Refugees Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

I love roast dinners, simple avocado salads, spicy Vietnamese papaya salad, all fish and seafood, a good steak.

Every movement of mine was under the control of the Vietnamese government, a communist country. I was just a prisoner without walls.

The ideal pre-show meal I think is pho, the Vietnamese soup. It's very light and good for you, and then the broth is great for the throat.

I've identified all my life with refugees.

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees.

Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

The TPP will be good for the American economy, the Vietnamese economy, and the labor and environmental standards that make life better for our people.

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees.

I was the child of refugees.

My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.

This country was built and continues to survive off the backs of immigrants and refugees.

Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.

The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they like our social benefits. They like our welfare state. They know which country to pick. They're not going to stay in Hungary or in Estonia. They come to Germany, to Holland. And people sense that those are not the real refugees. And our government has spent billions of euros on them, and the Dutch people know.

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a >.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

In Hollywood, I was never restricted to just one Asian character. I've been cast as a Chinese, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Japanese and a Cambodian.

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet.

We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need to open our ears. The American people are not whispering to us. They are screaming to us. And they're screaming to us that it's our job to actually make this government work.It's so dysfunctional under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's so ineffective. It's so ineffectual that the American people say, we don't trust them to do anything anymore. So I'm not going to let Syrian refugees, any Syrian refugees in this country.

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.

When refugees are at a distance it's easy to be compassionate.

We have blacks and whites, Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croats, and Filipinos and Vietnamese here. At the end of the day, everyone is each other's brother.

I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.

Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

Accepting Syrian refugees into the United States is an emotional issue.

I'm Vietnamese and Chinese, and I am the year of the dragon in the Chinese zodiac.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'

Australia is an extraordinary country full of people who eat extraordinary food. There are Greeks, Italians, Vietnamese, Koreans, Chinese, Brits. It's so varied.

And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

My parents always wanted me to learn about my culture and tried to make me eat Vietnamese food.

The contributions of refugees to the diverse mosaic of our nation are undeniable.

There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.

I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have.

I find that the heat from chilli counteracts hunger pangs, which I believe is why it's so popular in the developing world, so I have a very spicy Vietnamese pho for breakfast.

I've been doing the Vietnamese nail lady impressions since my mom first took me to get my nails done when I was 12.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

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

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

Indian IT services including digital economy and fin-tech sector have much to offer to Vietnamese growth.

I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!

If there were only one place to eat, I would pick anywhere in Northern Vietnam where you get the French and Vietnamese culinary fusion.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.