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[Some refugees said they were unhappy that the agents couldn't provide more information.] He didn't know too much about anything, ... He said he didn't have any vouchers or money, and I said, 'What are you doing here then?' They should have had a better plan.

Mary Williams

We must organize drives to raise money to respond to refugees' basic needs, which include proper housing, food, clothing, medical supplies and care, psychological counseling, and education for children.

Pesach Lerner

I think 'Desperate Housewives' whetted the appetite for 'Sex and the City' refugees.

Shari Anne Brill

We are happy that the governments have offered us a total of 85,000 places for refugees from Macedonia. The bottleneck, however, is the number of people who are actually being flown out. More people need to be flown out of Macedonia.

Kris Janowski

Food stocks for refugees living in Zambia will run out completely by March this year.

Jo Woods

They (hurricane refugees) probably have been traveling for days trying to find a place to stay.

Sharon Watson

Having American refugees on American soil is heartbreaking.

Matt Brown

We used to have kids brought here through a church, refugees with life-and-death stories.

Mary Cimbalnik

The refugees and displaced persons may vote back where they came from in their original municipalities from which hundreds of thousands were expelled through ethnic cleansing. It's a moral dimension to the peace process.

Robert Frowick

Our shareholders include people who print our books, our distributors, our authors, everyone. And we're not publicly traded, so that means it's charitable. And we don't offer advances. We actually have a lot of big-house refugees. They felt like an advance is nice, but they weren't treated well.

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam

There are no reports of civilian casualties. The rebels assured us that civilians, refugees and aid workers would not be targeted.

Matthew Conway

At the end of last week we learned that the government of Syria has agreed to receive the group of 181 Palestinian refugees stranded at the Iraq-Jordanian border. We have not been informed that other Palestinians will be allowed into Syria.

William Spindler

This is not a big movement of refugees, ... We're starting to organize now in a much more systematic way, bringing back people who need our assistance, who are maybe afraid to come back on their own, who can't afford to pay to come on their own, and we're taking them to the areas where KFOR has agreed there's a secure environment.

Dennis Mcnamara

We cannot exclude the possibility of new arrivals. Therefore the only thing we can do is try to prepare for a new wave of refugees.

Georges Menze

Refugees attempting to build the blockhouse on the remains of the fort never mounted ... cannons although they may have had at least one with them.

Todd W. Braisted

His words are (that) he won't give us anything on Jerusalem, on the (West Bank) settlements, on our refugees. What kind of peace can we make with those words?

Saeb Erekat

Finland has been a great supporter in the disarmament campaign. You have a remarkably low number of refugees and the number of cases of violence against women in Finland is extremely high for a European country.

Irene Khan

We don't know about the other refugees, and I think we need to bear in mind that there is a situation of considerable potential danger in eastern Zaire at the present time.

John Bruton

It seems that already 15,000 persons have been displaced as a result of the construction of the wall. This new generation of displaced persons creates a new category of Palestinian refugees.

John Dugard

WFP intends to continue helping the refugees but it can only do so with the help of the international community. That help is needed more than ever.

Amir Abdulla

[Refugees] think they are alone and that no one cares. All they know are their own problems. We try to show them what America and Canada looks like and then how people are caring about them from different places in the world.

John Weiss

Not only does the presence (of refugees) put some burden on the shoulders of (our) government, currently so occupied in tackling many domestic problems, but it also creates new problems with our local community.

Megawati Sukarnoputri

We will be in a position relatively soon to welcome North Korean refugees in the United States.

Jay Lefkowitz

It's really dedicated to the missing children of the Katrina refugees and all missing children. For me, that's a heart-rending thing.

Charles Brooks

Refugees are those people coming from foreign countries.

John Stroger

My concern about families is that I'm not yet satisfied that there are arrangements which would meet my principle objective, which is to have people available for processing and for removal if they're not refugees.

Philip Ruddock

By their nature, refugees don't have documentation. We don't necessarily expect them to have documentation. A lot of it is just based on interviews and experts knowing the veracity of the information. If you're someone who participated in the atrocity, it's a pretty easy sell to cast yourself as a victim of the atrocity.

Claude Arnold

I am hopeful and really confident that we are at a turning point in our ability to bring North Korean refugees here.

Jay Lefkowitz

They're not from a Communist country, and so folks tend to assume they're just economic refugees. They don't have the kind of political clout that a lot of other groups have. And frankly, I think the color of their skin has a lot to do with it.

Cheryl Little

They (refugees) have continued to receive half rations and we hope the generosity shown by the international community in the past will be repeated.

Jo Woods

It's for her own security and the security of the refugees. That's the only way she can have direct contact with people and hear their stories.

Jennifer Pagonis

We all saw the evacuation of Houston during the hurricane. In the exodus from Paris, five million people hit the road in fear of the impending battle. After the French surrendered without a defense of Paris, many moved back. For me, the drama was that evacuation. I could not get the image of two people on bicycles in that flood of refugees out of my head.

Louise Borden

Every state except Massachusetts was represented. As baby boom demographics have converged with equity refugees and low interest rates, Sun Belt communities have benefited.

James Wood

Australia needs to establish a Pacific climate change strategy and part of that, obviously, has to be dealing with the issue of climate change refugees.

Anthony Albanese

This measure is temporary. We have kept enough staff in field offices to continue delivering services to the refugees.

Claire Bourgeois

It is hindering the provision of primary health care to refugees.

James Lawrence

We're very disappointed to see that the United States Coast Guard has chosen to use firearms against refugees coming from Cuba. These are people who are desperate, and they're coming here not so much for a better life, but to leave behind a nightmare that exists in Cuba from the government of Castro.

Jose Basulto

They're the first climate refugees the country has seen.

Chip Giller

Aspen is not the place for refugees. They could not afford to live here.

Nan Sundeen

I have interviewed the refugees and civilians from these villages who testified to this.

Phil Cox

Refugees have come up from Louisiana and have located in Quitman County, Coahoma and Tunica.

Robert H. Jackson

This is certainly not our preferred course of action. We simply have no choice. Although we had a stable pipeline for refugees through to December this year, we have received no contributions from 2006.

David Stevenson

I don't fear detention in Latvia or extradition to Russia at all. The Latvian authorities' position on this issue is very consistent. Latvia strictly observes the 1951 Geneva Convention on Political Refugees and I have no reason to fear anything.

Boris Berezovsky

We left two cars there and three houses. My wife brought very little clothes. I brought very little, and my daughter brought very little. So we all look like refugees.

Art Neville

If more resources and significant resources are not announced immediately, we will not be able to make the further essential programs and commitments to assist refugees.

Ron Redmond

The witnesses will tell you that the vast majority of refugees fled their homes because of the attacks by Serb forces and not because of NATO bombing.

Dirk Ryneveld

Human Rights Watch should have, perhaps, directed it's concern to international institutions responsible for the protection of refugees in the countries, where they are settled.

Nasser Jawdeh

Having American refugees on American soil is heartbreaking, ... In Rhode Island and all across the country, American families are offering their homes, posting their offers on the Internet and on community bulletin boards. My wife Marisa and I offer our home for any family who is displaced.

Matt Brown

My urgent message to all the refugees in the camps is, 'Don't come back yet, it's not safe,'.

Dennis Mcnamara

It's clear that the (Hutu militants) have spooked the refugees, and they are using these people as shields.

Peter Kessler

There are no refugees, no displaced persons here, ... They are our guests and we treat them as such.

Mike Turner

It's important to provide this support regularly, because at this stage there are still about 200,000 people who are refugees or displaced people in their home country. It is a huge proportion of the population that depends largely on international aid.

Amadeu Altafaj

Close on everything: on the settlements, on the borders, on the refugees, and on Jerusalem.

Yossi Beilin

What we're doing here is human interaction on a heart level. All of the volunteers here have bonded with our guests. They are guests to us, not evacuees or refugees. They are family.

Barry Murchison

All those that were arrested after the election have been released and we have asked all refugees to come back so that we can talk together.

Faure Gnassingbe

We do not condone hostility toward these people. We know they're economic refugees.

Jim Gilchrist

The government wants the international community to condemn Sudan and ... the refugees can be used as a negotiating chip.

Claire Bourgeois

We are very far away from returning refugees to Kosovo or returning displaced people within the province to their original homes because, as we speak, people are still being expelled from Kosovo.

Kris Janowski

[The incident was] a clear attack on UNHCR as well as on the bus, ... And that's very demoralizing for us, having spent so much time with these peoples, the refugees we brought back, the work we've done in Kosovo, to have a frontal attack on UNHCR.

Dennis Mcnamara

This first group is a hope for the future for all Sudanese refugees and displaced.

Tesema Negash

Zambia has been very generous in hosting refugees for years. It is now up to the international community to do its share by funding the WFP.

Ahmed Said Farah

At this point, they (FEMA) don't have plans to move refugees anywhere other than where they are at this time.

Eric Lamoureux

It's a very different disaster. We are looking at a much higher number of refugees. And they face obstacles with a mountainous terrain.

Eric Block

Many of the Cuban refugees of that era learned English because of the word of the day on the Skipper Chuck show.

Ed O'dell

We had convoys bringing refugees back to the Houston convention center, then taxis to take them home.

Earl Lambert