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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.

Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.

We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to feel that refugees are a problem, but it's more than that. They're human beings, too. They were forced from their homes.

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.