“From the desk where I draft letters I know will be ignored, I see a powerful nation exporting its storms to a calmer shore.”

“The functionary who arranges the transfer of human beings has ceased to think of them as anything but the objects of a logistical operation.”

“The emotional satisfaction of appearing to solve a problem often conceals the logical error of merely relocating its symptoms.”

“All I know is what I read in the papers: one country's political problem becomes another country's twenty-five-a-day delivery.”

“If a nation may export its conscience, then no nation need ever have one.”

“Declaring a new center for your unwanted does not change the infinite responsibility you bear for setting them in motion.”

“Observe how a state, like a river in flood, seeks the path of least resistance for its overflowing pressure.”

“In my travels, I have noted that the worth of a ruler is measured by his treatment of the stranger at his gate, not the deal he strikes over the horizon.”

“Hateful things: a guest welcomed not for himself but as a token in a distant accounting.”

“This algorithm of displacement calculates political convenience while wholly ignoring the human variables it processes.”

“A dispute over borders masquerades as a question of law when its true nature is a failure of moral philosophy.”

“It is a most efficient arrangement, whereby one nation's unsightly problem becomes another's modest source of revenue.”