Mark Meadows 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.

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.

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

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

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

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

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.

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

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.'

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.

We have to get control of our borders.

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

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.

But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders.

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

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

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

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

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