Nikki Haley Quotes

I'm a former CIA officer and Pentagon official. I'm a deep believer in border security, but we have to be a nation of moral - of morals and, like, a moral core.

I have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.

A key part of your sovereignty is the ability to control the influx and outflow of your people and is the ability to secure your border.

Donald Trump's message is that we in the USA, if we're going to have a country, it would be nice too know who is here and why they're here.

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

I think most Americans would agree that we need sensible solutions that fix our immigration system and deal humanely with aspiring citizens currently in our country. At the same time, these solutions must increase the security of our borders.

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

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.

The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

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.

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.

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

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

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.

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Our naturalization and immigration laws should be further improved to the constant promotion of a safer, a better, and a higher citizenship. A grave peril to the Republic would be a citizenship too ignorant to understand or too vicious to appreciate the great value and beneficence of our institutions and laws, and against all who come here to make war upon them our gates must be promptly and tightly closed.

A country isn't sovereign if we can't control who comes in and who's allowed to come in.

We have to get control of our borders.

Looking at the history of our country, we have been and we are pro-immigrant, but we aren't going to be much of a country if we don't take care of our own people first and if we don't observe the rule of law.

What we wouldn't want to see is just a piece of legislation on border security and high tech immigration without focusing on the path to citizenship for the 11 million people who are here, and other provisions.

We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of our citizens.

There is nothing unbiblical about building a wall and protecting citizens.