Ted Cruz Quotes

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

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

As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.

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

A Trump administration will secure and defend our borders.

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.

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

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

We need to make sure we have secure 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.

Border security is a safety issue.

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

The Federal Government does not control our borders as the law requires …. I haven’t received a response saying that the check is in the mail….When people illegally cross our borders that the Federal Government is supposed to control, the Federal Government should pick up the tab.

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

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

We do need to strengthen our security at the border.

The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there's going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don't believe any of that's going to move forward until our border is secured.

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

The mission of Border Patrol agents to protect the United States from harm is being impeded by a crisis Congress has the ability to fix, but as usual, chooses not to.

Our border security is laughable.

While leaving our own border wide open. Anybody can come in. But don't worry, we're getting a wall.We're getting bad people out of this country.

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.

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.

Securing the border is priority number one.

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.