John McCain Quotes

I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.

Border security is a safety issue.

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

You look at our borders, they're like swiss cheese, everybody pours in.

The idea that you're going have zero people crossing the border is unrealistic. But today we know that's not the case. Today we know we've got a porous border and people are coming in, and we don't know who they are. So secure the border then we can have a conversation about it.

Securing the border is priority number one.

I'm going to make America safe. We're going to have borders in our country, which we don't have now. People are pouring into our country, and they're coming in from the Middle East and other places.

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

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.

Border security and homeland security are one and the same.

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.

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

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

The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.

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.

A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

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 will expand the number of border patrol stations significantly.

I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.

We have no country if we have no border.

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.

A Trump administration will secure and defend our borders.

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.