Donald Trump Quotes

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

I don't think this wall [Donald Trump wants to build], having the - there's no way to force them to, but expecting the Mexicans to pay for it doesn't make any sense either.

He [Donald Trump]wants to build the wall. It would be silly to say we're going to - we're going to create an army and we're going to have Mexico pay for our border patrol, our border police. Clearly, that's not going to happen.

The words are frightening - how you're going to build a wall, how you're going to have Mexico pay for it. What does this mean?

The Mexicans are not going to build the wall... they're not going to do it.

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're going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay. And the reason they're going to pay and the way they're going to pay, Bob, is this. We have a trade deficit now with Mexico of $58 billion a year. The wall is going to cost $10 billion a year. That's what it's going to cost. It's going to be a powerful wall. It's going to cost $10 billion.

Actually the idea of having Mexico pay for the wall on the southern border is a nonstarter. That seems to be generally pretty much recognized on both sides of the border. What you find, though, is that logistically it's not impossible.

We're going to build a wall. Donald Trump never said it's going to go from one end of the country, from the Gulf to the Pacific, and he'll use good judgment about that. And there are ways, through tax and regulation policies, that we can - and immigrant fees - that this could be paid for. I have not studied the details of it but, absolutely, I think that is possible.

President-elect [Donald] Trump has said thousands of times, I will build a wall. He didn't just say he'll build a wall. I'll build a great wall and it will be a beautiful wall, and I'll make the Mexicans pay for it.

I think we're gonna end up with a much better relationship with Mexico. We will have the wall and in a very serious form Mexico will pay for the wall.

Mexico will under no circumstance pay for the wall that Mr. Trump is proposing.

We want President Trump to have all the tools he needs to build the wall.

Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

I think Republicans, to their credit, are not interested, as a majority vote bloc, in funding a wall.

We agree with that goal [to secure our border] and will be working with [Donald Trump] to finance on construction of the physical barrier, including the wall on the southern border. The law is already on the books. I voted for it, like, ten years ago, but nothing has gotten done and now we have a president who actually wants to secure the border and we are all in favor of doing that.

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

My base understands the Mexican wall is going to get built, whether I have it funded here or if I get it funded later, that wall's getting built, OK? One hundred percent. One hundred percent it's getting built. And it's also getting built for much less money - I hope you get this - than some people are estimating.

Beginning of our conversation with Donald Trump, I made it very clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall.

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

If I'm elected president, we will secure the border. We will triple the border patrol. We will build a wall that works and I'll get Donald Trump to pay for it.

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

The wall is going to to take a while. Obviously [Donald Trump] is going to build it.It's a campaign promise; he's not going to break a campaign promise.

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

In America, we will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall. One hundred percent. They don't know it yet, but they're going to pay for it. And they're great people and great leaders but they're going to pay for the wall. On day one, we will begin working on intangible, physical, tall, power, beautiful southern border wall.