Michael McCaul Quotes

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

When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.

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

I think most of us in America want our security. There're so many people out there that are fearful and now with this realization of immigration, with the terrorists, we need to have better checks and balances in regards to who's emigrating into our country.

Congress should pass legislation that mandates increased information sharing for any country that wants to participate in the Visa Waiver Program.

Where there is terrorist activity - Syria or Iraq - we will temporarily suspend immigration until we can establish a vetting system in which we can identify who people are who are coming in.

We need a very robust way of looking at people coming into the country... We're focused on the whole concept of the ideology and of the vetting.

Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

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.

In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.

The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.

I believe it is essential that we close the security gaps that put our nation at risk, and I will continue to fight for the funding that will secure high-risk targets, such as our ports and borders.

If a nation's security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation's immigration policy.

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical 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.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

Border security is a safety issue.

Border security and homeland security are one and the same.

I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

And so border security is not simply preventing people from getting in, but very often preventing somebody from leaving for the wrong reasons.

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

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

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.