Stewart Baker Quotes (14 Quotes)

We wanted to look at this one quite closely because it relates to ports. It is important to focus on this partner as opposed to just what part of the world they come from. We came to the conclusion that the transaction should not be halted.

It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

We now have access to information we didn't have before. ... It's no longer a 'gap.' We can have it anytime we like.

We're moving to an area where international travelers' fingerprints are going to be part of their identifier.

Wiretapping has a long history of enthusiastic use in France.

In Africa, I've had officials tell us if you bring in encryption equipment, they'll throw you in jail.

This is a full review without preconceptions. We are going to give this transaction a very robust examination.

The company will be taking over PO North America, which is a U.S. company, and they do not have plans to change that corporate structure at this time.

We were eager to have them continue in that. And PO had become part of our best-practices program ... for security of the supply chain. We wanted to make sure that they (DP World) would continue with that.

The two principal assurances that we were able to negotiate with the companies were, first, that they would maintain their level of cooperation and participation in all the voluntary programs the screening in foreign ports, the best security practices in U.S. ports.

If there's a way to solve the problem of actually getting all that information together and setting it in the hands of somebody who can make a useful decision, then it's a promising possibility.

It is appropriate to examine the government record, as well as the company record.

This is a very big win for this administration. It is going to be the definitive statement on this issue for years to come.

The second thing that they agreed to is to give us what amounted to an open books promise, so that we could without getting a subpoena, without getting a warrant walk into their offices and ask for any records that they might have about any of their operations in the United States or any effort to control their operations from outside the United States.