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We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

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.

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

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.

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.