John Cornyn Quotes

We still have a long way to go before we can declare America safe, and that means doing a better job along our borders, as well.

Securing the border is priority number one.

We have to get control of our borders.

A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

You look at our borders, they're like swiss cheese, everybody pours in.

The idea that you're going have zero people crossing the border is unrealistic. But today we know that's not the case. Today we know we've got a porous border and people are coming in, and we don't know who they are. So secure the border then we can have a conversation about it.

These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.

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.

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

I work for one man. His name is Donald Trump. He has told me one thing: 'Secure the border.'

Those who feel a little insecure about our border have some reason to feel that way.

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

Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.

I offered early on - I think I was governor about a month when I met President Obama - and said, 'I would like to visit with you in reference to border security, in reference to immigration. I'd like to be part of the discussion because I lived on the border all my life.' I've never received a call.

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

The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.

We cannot have this porous border, where people come in and out; we don't know who they are.

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

It's perfectly reasonable and responsible policy for any nation to maintain its sovereignty, to protect its borders. And [Donald] Trump does not believe in ending immigration. He's never proposed that.

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

I'm going to make our country safe. We're going to have borders in our country, which we don't know. People are pouring into our country and coming in from the Middle East and other places.

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

I'm going to make America safe. We're going to have borders in our country, which we don't have now. People are pouring into our country, and they're coming in from the Middle East and other places.

We have no country if we have no border.

Hillary Clinton will be very weak on the border. She wants people just to flow in terms of illegal immigration. People are going to flow into the country. And it's going to be a disaster.