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"We have national security concerns. There are lots of concerns which must be addressed by actually securing our border. And so, a physical security barrier on the border is something we`ve all - I voted for it, like I said, in 2006 or 2007."
"Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it."
"Sovereign countries have the right, and I would argue the responsibility of securing their borders and controlling who comes and goes in their country. All sovereign countries have that right. We have not exercised that right."
"One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border."
"The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them."
"My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as the asset unless the value of the asset declines (ouch), the asset is given away (no comment), or I die with it. The latter course of action would appear to at least border on a Pyrrhic victory."
"Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling away, and ousting them, filling their place, a will with no image. Will beneath crusts which readily crack whenever the act inside swells and seeks new borders."
"Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border."
"I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical."
"When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory."
"I have a fear of heights that borders on mania."
"There was a conservative consensus for an amendment I put forward called Trust, But Verify that would have strengthened border security on both refugees, students and those coming here. And Marco sided and I guess was more sympathetic to Chuck Schumer and to the president than he was to conservative principles."
"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."
"I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders."
"Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting."
"I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs."
"In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders."
"The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching the United States. Pretty much the same thing Europeans have done to Turks and Syrians."
"The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat."
"And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores."
