John Culberson Quotes

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

We are a nation of borders and - I mean, that is one of the main things that the federal government is in charge with, and that is protecting the citizens of the United States and our whole nation.

And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.

I have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.

If the federal government won't secure the border, the State of Arizona will step in to complement federal efforts in a constitutional manner and protect the security of its citizens.

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.

Border security and homeland security are one and the same.

It may seem obvious. A government that cannot provide security for its citizens will soon find itself running a weak or failed state.

I drafted and proposed a law to secure our borders and build the border wall - and make the sanctuary cities pay for it.

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.

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.

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

One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door.

The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.

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

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.

If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders.

We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.

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.

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

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.