John McCain Quotes

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

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.

Border security is a safety issue.

The simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own boarders.

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.

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.

When you look at all of the problems that are streaming and flowing over that border, the first thing we have to do is secure it. Job number one.

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

We're going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall, to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration.

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.

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.

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.

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

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'm in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

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

We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.

People believe you have to secure the border; whether you're doing it with a wall that keeps getting higher because of the crazy things the Mexicans say, if you go that Donald Trump route, whatever route you go, everyone agrees in our movement that you have to secure the border.

We have to get control of our borders.

We have a crisis with a need to secure the border.

You know Donald Trump will secure our borders.

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.

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