“We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.”

Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.

The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.

Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.

This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.

In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.

We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.

The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.

In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.

The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.

Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.

We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.

Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.

This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.

Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There’s hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn’t have a cause or effect that’s generated abroad. Increasingly.

Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world’s community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.