Mark Udall Quotes

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

I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico.

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

People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it's very simple: border security is national security.

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

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.

But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders.

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

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

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

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.

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.

Border security is a safety issue.

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

I work for one man. His name is Donald Trump. He has told me one thing: 'Secure the border.'

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?

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.

We do need to strengthen our security at the 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 offered early on - I think I was governor about a month when I met President Obama - and said, 'I would like to visit with you in reference to border security, in reference to immigration. I'd like to be part of the discussion because I lived on the border all my life.' I've never received a call.

Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.