Checks Quote by Mark Halperin
“You saw in your interview with Speaker [Paul] Ryan, though, an echo of what the White House and the president [Donald Trump] have started to say, which is, well, we're not going to get a check from Mexico to pay for the wall on the front end. We're going to find some way to get the money back, but initially will be paid for by the U.S.”
![“Mexico will pay for it [the wall], because they are not doing us any favors. They could stop all of this illegal trade if they wanted to immediately.” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c5a/donald-trump-18_favors_mexico-will-pay-for-it-the-wall-because_2282795.jpg)
![“If I'm president, I guarantee you they [Mexicans] will pay [for the wall], and they will be very, very happy about it.” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/754/donald-trump-18_guarantees_if-i-m-president-i-guarantee-you-they-me_212327.jpg)
![“There are a lot of different ways of getting Mexico to contribute to doing this. And there are different ways of defining how exactly they pay for it. [Donald Trump] has a promise that he made to the American people which is to secure our border. A wall is a big part of that.” quote by Paul Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/73b/paul-ryan-869_american-people_there-are-a-lot-of-different-ways-of-get_2678392.jpg)
![“Mexico is not going to build it [a wall], we're going to build it. And it's going to be a serious wall. It's not going to be a toy wall like we have right now where cars and trucks drive over it loaded up with drugs and they sell the drugs in our country and then they go back and, you know, we get…” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/33a/donald-trump-18_car_mexico-is-not-going-to-build-it-a-wall-w_1540807.jpg)
![“I think the Mexican government is going to be forced to at least be more aware of what goes on in the [Donald] Trump administration than they were in the [Barack] Obama administration.” quote by Mark Halperin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f38/mark-halperin-23257_administration_i-think-the-mexican-government-is-going_1499532.jpg)
![“As speaker [Paul] Ryan suggested, I think they're trying to go back to the Republican dodge and saying we're going to focus on border security first, focus on criminals in this country first, and try to punt down the road issues like the 12 million people who are here illegally.” quote by Mark Halperin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd2/mark-halperin-23257_border-security_as-speaker-paul-ryan-suggested-i-think-t_1602891.jpg)
