Dana Perino Quotes

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

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

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall,

We have two borders--one with Mexico and the other with Canada, I've done a lot of looking, but I have never seen an illegal Canadian .... Canada has a sound, stable economy, and that's what you need to solve the border problem. That that's why a wall by itself will never work.

Immigration is not going to be a 'side issue' in 2016 - it is the issue.

We're getting a wall. We're definitely getting a wall. That's the one thing we know about a Trump presidency.

I believe that Senate Bill 1070 lit America on fire. I think we've all realized exactly what the situation is. And the people of Arizona have lived with these porous borders and illegal immigration into our state and that people throughout America realize that. Everybody understands the problem except the president of the United States.

There is nothing unbiblical about building a wall and protecting citizens.

I will tell you unequivocally, a wall from sea to shining sea is not the right direction to go.

If Democrats oppose a border wall, they're just saying they want continued, unendingly illegal immigration.

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

Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.

There is no need for a wall from sea to shining sea.

Mexico doesn't know whether it should pay more attention to those who advocate militarizing the border or to those - like President Obama - who have come out against it.

Unless the immigration issue is tackled in a constructive way, Mexico and the United States will probably revert to a historic cycle of confrontation and recrimination.

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.

Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.

The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.