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I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

The refugee crisis shows we can't be isolated from the world's geopolitical troubles.

We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.

I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.

We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.

The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point to say it's not just a security issue. It's also an economic issue.

There is a real problem in terms of the refugee flow, the ability of ISIS to infiltrate those refugee flows, our inability to track them.

Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.

I have sympathy for the people in Syria, and I do think there should be a worldwide response, but we should act cautiously.

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.