Christopher Cox Quotes

Homeland security is a joke if we don’t have border security.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Border security is a safety issue.

People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it's very simple: border security is national security.

Border security is the most basic and necessary responsibility of a sovereign nation.

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

You can’t have open borders and win the war against terrorism at the same time.

We do not control our borders. We don’t know who is coming across and we don’t know what is coming across.

“Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States"

We do need to strengthen our security at the border.

I think people all across the country want us to secure the border and make sure that terrorists are not coming into our country.

I think we need the make sure our border is secure, not just from a standpoint of strategic fencing or border slats, whatever you want to call it, but we need to make sure that once and for all, we secure our border to make sure our communities are safe.

It is my great honor to represent the men and women of DHS who work every day to enforce our laws and secure our nation.

The men and women at our borders, given adequate resources, are doing an excellent job of keeping us safe.

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.

The numbers of terrorists that we have caught coming - we actually don't catch them coming across the border. We usually catch them in some other context.

I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico.

National security begins with border security. Foreign terrorists will not be able to strike America if they cannot get into our country.

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.

I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.

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.