John F. Kelly Quotes

The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

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.

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.

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.

Border security is a safety issue.

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

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

If you think winning means a porous border with 400,000 people apprehended illegally every year, then your definition of winning is different than mine.

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

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.

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.

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

Homeland security is a joke if we don’t have border security.

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

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.

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.

We need a wall or a sophisticated fence, as long as it secures our border.

There must be protection of the external borders.