Mick Mulvaney Quotes

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.

We have to build the wall. We have to stop drugs from pouring in. We have to stop people from just pouring into our country. We have no idea where they're from.

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

I want to build the wall. We need the wall. And the Border Patrol, ICE, they all want the wall. We stop the drugs. We shore up the border.

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

Border security is a safety issue.

While leaving our own border wide open. Anybody can come in. But don't worry, we're getting a wall.We're getting bad people out of this country.

America is a sovereign nation. And as President Trump has said all along, made a centerpiece of his campaign from day one, we have to stop the flow of people and drugs over our borders.

Ultimately, we have to have the wall on the border. If we don't have the wall, we are doing nothing.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

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

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.

We have to get control of our borders.

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

There must be protection of the external 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.

I think people all across the country want us to secure the border and make sure that terrorists are not coming into our country.

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.