Jim Ramstad Quotes

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 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.

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

We have to get control of our 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.

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

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

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.

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 need to make sure we have secure borders.

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.

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

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.

Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics, for Social Security and employment purposes.

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

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.

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