"I would certainly like to see a large percentage... goes back into, to pay for these border security operations."
"I just want an accurate assessment of what is the level of crime."
"Clearly, the numbers I submitted in my written testimony are accurate--18.9 percent referral rate for drug felonies, and we have 9.4 percent of the population in our border region."
"We are not happy with the fact that our border is not secure, because we know it can be secure, if the Federal Government commits sufficient resources to do it."
"My intent is to help Mexico."
"When the U.S./Mexico border is finally secured the Mexican Cartels will no longer have access to the billions of dollars they use to undermine the domestic security of Mexico and the safety and securi..."
"it is a Constitutional obligation, not a political obligation, to protect the border."
"We have failed the States, the Federal Government has."
"There cannot be homeland security without border security."
"The Federal Government needs to stand up with you."
"I suggest that the violence in Mexico and the threat it poses to Mexico and to our communities, requires a September 11 type of response from our country."