Donald Trump Quotes

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 a responsibility to control our borders. Building a wall is not an answer, not here in America or any place.

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

The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall.

I want to build the wall. We need the wall. And the Border Patrol, ICE, they all want the wall. We stop the drugs. We shore up the border.

We're going to have a real border, because we're going to have a wall.

Look, the Mexican border wall is necessary. That's not just politics, and yet it is good for the heart of the nation in a certain way because people want protection. And a wall protects. All you have to do is ask Israel. They were having a total disaster coming across, and they had a wall. It's 99.9 percent stoppage.

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

Border security is a safety issue.

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.

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

There must be protection of the external borders.

We do need to strengthen our security at the border.

It's not rocket science. It's not super high technology to construct border barriers.

What we have to quit talking about is border wall. We need border security.

I don't have a problem with enhanced border security, perhaps to include fencing. I think the mistake is believing that border security is as simple as just putting up a wall from sea to shining sea.

After we secure the border, not only build a wall, but beneath the ground and in the air, we do internal enforcement.

We've undertaken the most substantial border security measures in a generation to keep our nation and our tax dollars safe and are now in the process of beginning to build a promised wall on the southern border.

We have to build the wall. We have to stop drugs from pouring in. We have to stop people from just pouring into our country. We have no idea where they're from.

Ultimately, we have to have the wall on the border. If we don't have the wall, we are doing nothing.

We are trying to get a border wall to protect millions of low income Americans against folks who aren't supposed to be here. So, it's a national security.

Some people are so surprised that we're having strong borders. Well, that's what I have been talking about for a year and a half, strong borders.

I'm calling upon president-elect [Donald] Trump to not just settle for a wall.Let's build a fence, then a wall, then a fence, so we create two no man's lands, one on either side of the wall. That way when we pick people up there they don't really have an excuse.

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.

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.