Refugees Quotes

As far as an upper limit [on refugees] is concerned, my position is clear: I will not accept it.

I encourage you to welcome refugees into your homes and communities, so that their first experience of Europe is not the traumatic experience of sleeping cold on the streets, but one of warm welcome.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity.

This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.