Mike Pence Quotes

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall.

We're going to have a real border, because we're going to have a wall.

Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

We've undertaken the most substantial border security measures in a generation to keep our nation and our tax dollars safe and are now in the process of beginning to build a promised wall on the southern border.

I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they're properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.

Border security and homeland security are one and the same.

The people that work the border will tell you that physical barriers, backed up by men and women, is what we need to secure the southwest border.

The president has promised greater border security. We can agree to that. A literal wall might not be the most effective means to that end, but we can provide the resources necessary to secure the border with smart and affordable measures.

We need a wall or a sophisticated fence, as long as it secures our border.

It's not rocket science. It's not super high technology to construct border barriers.

What we have to quit talking about is border wall. We need border security.

In fact, building a wall from sea to shining sea would be the most expensive and least effective way to secure the border.

As far as a wall is concerned, the experts actually say that in some places a wall is necessary, in other places a double wall is necessary, and in other places that a wall wouldn't help. So I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico. We've got to do it. I'm for then enforcing our laws.

I don't have a problem with enhanced border security, perhaps to include fencing. I think the mistake is believing that border security is as simple as just putting up a wall from sea to shining sea.

We are not talking about isolation. We're talking about security. We're not talking about religion. We're talking about security. Our country is out of control. People are pouring across the southern border. I will build a wall. It will be a great wall. People will not come in unless they come in legally. Drugs will not pour through that wall.

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

Should we have border security there? Yes. But the idea of the United States erecting a wall for the world to see makes a lie of everything we say about ourselves. It's a little bit like why the President [Barack Obama] and I feel so strongly about closing Guantanamo. It is inconsistent with who we are.

We have a responsibility to control our borders. Building a wall is not an answer, not here in America or any place.

We agree with that goal [to secure our border] and will be working with [Donald Trump] to finance on construction of the physical barrier, including the wall on the southern border. The law is already on the books. I voted for it, like, ten years ago, but nothing has gotten done and now we have a president who actually wants to secure the border and we are all in favor of doing that.

We have to build the wall. We have to stop drugs from pouring in. We have to stop people from just pouring into our country. We have no idea where they're from.

It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.

Ultimately, we have to have the wall on the border. If we don't have the wall, we are doing nothing.

We have national security concerns. There are lots of concerns which must be addressed by actually securing our border. And so, a physical security barrier on the border is something we've all - I voted for it, like I said, in 2006 or 2007.