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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.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.