Top 56 Quotes & Sayings by Kris Kobach

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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Kris Kobach

Kris William Kobach is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 31st Secretary of State of Kansas. A former Chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, Kobach came to national prominence over his far-right anti-immigration views, including involvement in the implementation of high-profile anti-immigration ordinances in various American cities. Kobach is also known for his calls for stronger voter ID laws in the United States, a national registry of Muslims in the United States, and his advocacy for anti-abortion legislation. He has made claims about the extent of voter fraud in the United States that studies and fact-checkers have concluded are false or unsubstantiated.

Every country needs to know how many citizens it has.
There are some in the establishment who dislike a candidate who thinks for himself and isn't easily controlled by the Washington establishment. I will be someone who will be taking a firm stand on principle and will not be knuckling under whenever the establishment snaps its fingers.
President Trump needs a senator who will lead the charge for him. — © Kris Kobach
President Trump needs a senator who will lead the charge for him.
One of the things about New York City is obviously it's a very liberal place but there are plenty of conservatives that don't feel particularly well represented by Chuck Schumer or Kirsten Gillibrand.
We have to be a nation of laws.
If we're worried about keeping families together, then the illegal alien parents who brought them here should also be removed to the home country along with the DACA recipient alien.
We're looking at all forms of election irregularities, voter fraud, voter registration fraud, voter intimidation, suppression, and looking at the vulnerabilities of the various elections we have in each of the 50 states.
Being enrolled in a college does not free you from the legal obligation to become domiciled.
Without question, Alabama's House Bill 56 is the most comprehensive anti-illegal-immigration state law ever drafted.
Every time an alien votes, it cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen!
That's what the new definition of racist is: It's a conservative that's winning an argument!
First of all, it's important to note that the federal government doesn't have the authority to take anybody off of any voter rolls. The states are in control of each of their voter rolls in the 50 states.
My hope is that Kansas will be to stopping election fraud what Arizona is to stopping illegal immigration.
Instead of turning loose these bogus asylum applicants onto the American streets never to be seen again, let's put them into mobile homes. Let's process their claims. Let's ship the judges in. Have the claims processed right there. As soon as their claim is denied, put them on a passenger plane and fly them right back home.
It's time we stop illegal immigration in Kansas. — © Kris Kobach
It's time we stop illegal immigration in Kansas.
It's not rocket science. It's not super high technology to construct border barriers.
Voter fraud happens on both sides of the aisle. And if nothing else, I'm glad Democrats are acknowledging that it exists.
Well, let's remember that one of the things that the open borders side always says is, 'Oh, they're just children.' No... the median age is 25 of a DACA illegal alien, and they can be up to 36 years old and still be getting the amnesty, and they claim to have come in before the age of 16, so first of all they are not children.
Because, when it comes to restoring the rule of law, I can't change my mind and I won't change the subject.
My position is if you double vote, we will find you and it will be a heavy hit to the wallet.
We will build the wall faster and better if I'm elected.
Our borders are being overrun.
It just struck me as obvious that a state has the right to restrict its welfare benefits only to those people who are U.S. citizens or are visiting the state legally.
If I am elected, God willing, to the United States Senate, I will be leading the charge for President Trump.
And when a few noncitizens vote, those can swing a close election.
The numbers of terrorists that we have caught coming - we actually don't catch them coming across the border. We usually catch them in some other context.
I think all nonpresidential elections are won or lost by motivating your own voters.
Quite often the federal government purchases things at prices higher than individuals in the private marketplace.
Facts have come to light that indicate that a pivotal, close election was likely changed through voter fraud on Nov. 8, 2016: New Hampshire's U.S. Senate Seat, and perhaps also New Hampshire's four electoral college votes in the presidential election.
Self-deportation benefits the illegal alien because he can leave without being arrested or detained, and self-deportation benefits the taxpayer because the government doesn't have to spend money arresting the alien, detaining the alien and holding removal hearings.
A commission presenting evidence doesn't do a Jedi mind trick and make state legislators in some state suddenly pass a bill.
The Department of Homeland Security knows of the millions of aliens who are in the United States legally and that's data that's never been bounced against the state's voter rolls to see whether these people are registered.
If Republicans vote in big numbers, we win a statewide election. It's just that simple.
I served as Attorney General John Ashcroft's chief adviser on immigration law at the U.S. Department of Justice during 2001-03.
Kansas and this country have been rewarding illegal immigration for a long time. Here in this state, that's going to stop the moment I take office.
For me, the most important issue in the Republican presidential contest is immigration and its effect on our national security. On that issue Mr. Trump stands head and shoulders above the other candidates.
The calls for socialism on the left get louder and louder, and they don't stop. — © Kris Kobach
The calls for socialism on the left get louder and louder, and they don't stop.
I have been very aggressively campaigning on Kansas needs to cut its taxes.
Attrition through enforcement is simply the self-evident principle that if you ratchet up the level of enforcement and make it more difficult to break the law, fewer people will continue to break the law.
When illegal labor is used, that almost always depresses wages paid to all workers. The illegal workers can be exploited, and they will usually accept lower wages. As a result, all workers in the plant, including U.S. citizens, will see their wages go down.
The SPLC calls so many people racist they have watered down the term.
Arizona really has been a trailblazer in discouraging illegal immigration.
We have the ability to shut down the flow of remittances to Mexico from illegal aliens working in the United States.
Crosscheck is a really valuable tool.
It's always enjoyable talking with someone who has a very well-functioning, reasoning mind.
It is correct that securing the border is a government function, but when the government fails, it has a specific and significant impact on individual landowners.
Drones don't stop people from coming across the border, they merely tell you that someone is coming across the border.
If you want to be part of the American country, then do it legally. — © Kris Kobach
If you want to be part of the American country, then do it legally.
You want the president to be uninfluenced by any factors other than his advisers and the best interests of the United States. I think, on that category, Donald Trump easily beats Hillary Clinton.
It used to be that conservatives who were in government, like myself, we would get what we felt was unfair coverage, we'd go home, we would grumble, we would complain about it, but we actually wouldn't say anything to the reporter or to the reporters while they're asking us additional questions.
The world is a dangerous place. And it's a more dangerous place than it was seven years ago [before Obama].
Different presidents are different as far as their public persona vs. their persona meeting with advisers. For example, George Bush was pretty much the same in person as when he was speaking publicly. I think Donald Trump has a stage persona and he also has a temperament when meeting with his advisers. Now, the positions are the same, but the attitude is a little bit different.
No one doubts that Donald Trump is willing to walk away from a deal if it's a bad one. No one doubts that he's willing to punish our enemies if they transgress U.S. interests, whereas, with Hillary Clinton, she is very predictable.
I have had the advantage of the opportunity to meet with Mr. Trump on several occasions. And my experience is that he's very intelligent. He's thirsty for information. He wants to hear what you have to say. He listens to his advisers. He digests the information very quickly, and he's got a good memory, because I remember one time I was talking to him about something, and then he pulled some information out of his memory banks that was a great connection that I hadn't even thought to mention to him.
For a long time, there has been lingering doubt among many Americans about integrity and fairness of elections. And it's not a new issue at all. If you look at polling data, it goes back decades.
I think that in terms of the American interests, I would feel more safe with a President Trump representing those interests to the world.
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