Steve Scalise Quotes

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

Mexico will under no circumstance pay for the wall that Mr. Trump is proposing.

The words are frightening - how you're going to build a wall, how you're going to have Mexico pay for it. What does this mean?

We obviously don't like the idea of a wall. It's not a friendly gesture. And my own personal opinion is that it might not even work for the purposes that it's meant to work for.

We are not talking about isolation. We're talking about security. We're not talking about religion. We're talking about security. Our country is out of control. People are pouring across the southern border. I will build a wall. It will be a great wall. People will not come in unless they come in legally. Drugs will not pour through that wall.

If his order from the president is to build a wall, John Kelly will build a wall. And I've got a design out there and I hope it's considered. There are other good designs out there. But he will get it done. He's a doer.

[Donald Trump] can do it [build the wall] by executive order by just re-programming money within the within the Immigration Service.

I don't think this wall [Donald Trump wants to build], having the - there's no way to force them to, but expecting the Mexicans to pay for it doesn't make any sense either.

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.

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

We're going to build a wall, folks. We're going to build a wall. That wall will go up so fast, your head will spin.

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

One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

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.

No fence has ever been able to stop history, much less a border fence…. A 10 foot fence only takes an 11 foot ladder to scale it.

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

The Federal Government does not control our borders as the law requires …. I haven’t received a response saying that the check is in the mail….When people illegally cross our borders that the Federal Government is supposed to control, the Federal Government should pick up the tab.

I work for one man. His name is Donald Trump. He has told me one thing: 'Secure the border.'

I love the idea of the Great Wall of Trump.

Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics, for Social Security and employment purposes.

We have to get control of our borders.

Let's vote to fund the wall.

We're getting a wall. We're definitely getting a wall. That's the one thing we know about a Trump presidency.

I think the wall is stupid; it's a waste of the taxpayer's money. We need the money for job growth, infrastructure, 100 other things... it sends a bad message.