Michael Chertoff Quotes

I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.

Let me state this as clearly as I can: We are going to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. We will not be deterred from this course, and in a matter of days, we will be taking brand new action to protect out people and keep America safe. You will see the action.

We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.

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.

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.

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

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

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.

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

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

Border security is a safety issue.

Border security and homeland security are one and the same.

I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

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.

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

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

We can't deal with the flood in the orchards until we cap the floodwaters coming into them. And that means giving our Border Patrol the total resources they need to get their job done, and even utilizing military personnel in particular hot crossing spots.

We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.

We want to do this methodically, smart, starting with border security then looking at immigration reform measures.

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

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.

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.