Bob Corker Quotes

We do need to strengthen our security at the border.

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.

One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door.

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.

Border security is a safety issue.

Some people are so surprised that we're having strong borders. Well, that's what I have been talking about for a year and a half, strong borders.

I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.

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

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

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

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.

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.

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

I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty.

I drafted and proposed a law to secure our borders and build the border wall - and make the sanctuary cities pay for it.

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

I don't have a problem with enhanced border security, perhaps to include fencing. I think the mistake is believing that border security is as simple as just putting up a wall from sea to shining sea.

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

Securing the border is priority number one.

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

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.

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

I'm in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.

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