Jeb Bush Quotes

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

I don't have a problem with enhanced border security, perhaps to include fencing. I think the mistake is believing that border security is as simple as just putting up a wall from sea to shining sea.

Securing the border is priority number one.

A Trump administration will secure and defend our borders.

We're going to have a real border, because we're going to have a wall.

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.

We need to make sure we have secure 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 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.

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

Border security is a safety issue.

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

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?

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

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

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

As far as a wall is concerned, the experts actually say that in some places a wall is necessary, in other places a double wall is necessary, and in other places that a wall wouldn't help. So I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico. We've got to do it. I'm for then enforcing our laws.

Democrats are certainly happy to talk about border security, but we're not going to build this stupid vanity wall of Donald Trump's with U.S. taxpayer dollars.

After we secure the border, not only build a wall, but beneath the ground and in the air, we do internal enforcement.

We have a responsibility to control our borders. Building a wall is not an answer, not here in America or any place.

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.