Pete Buttigieg Quotes

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.

When you look at all of the problems that are streaming and flowing over that border, the first thing we have to do is secure it. Job number one.

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

But again, to dealing with border security, is an issue that - it's like having a fire in the back of your house that you need to put out first before you talk about who, who you're going to let in the front door.

I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.

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

We have two borders--one with Mexico and the other with Canada, I've done a lot of looking, but I have never seen an illegal Canadian .... Canada has a sound, stable economy, and that's what you need to solve the border problem. That that's why a wall by itself will never work.

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.

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

We have a crisis with a need to secure the 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.

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

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

Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.

We have a serious problem in this country, and that is securing this country and making sure that the rule of law's upheld. And I applaud Arizona in regards to this.

While Congress repeatedly finds plenty of time to vote on resolutions of condemnation over border security, they've done virtually nothing to actually solve the problem.

We need to secure our southern border. Clearly, the southern border is now a nexus between immigration and national security. It's a sieve.

If you think winning means a porous border with 400,000 people apprehended illegally every year, then your definition of winning is different than mine.

We're going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall, to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration.

I want people to know that I am tough on illegal immigration and we are working to provide needed border security.