Paul Ryan Quotes

Border security and homeland security are one and the same.

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.

Border security is a safety issue.

Border security is the most basic and necessary responsibility of a sovereign nation.

National security begins with border security. Foreign terrorists will not be able to strike America if they cannot get into our country.

Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

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.

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

We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the 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.

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

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

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

You can’t have open borders and win the war against terrorism at the same time.

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

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

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

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

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 strongly support screening all visitors and potential immigrants thoroughly to prevent bad actors from entering the country.

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

Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.