“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.”

Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.

We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.

You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.

To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.

An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.

The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.

But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.

Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.

In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.

The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.

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.

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

I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.