Michael Chertoff Quotes on Security (8 Quotes)

As we improve security, we ought to have the ability to begin to manage the risk by looking to communities that haven't gotten the help.

As you know, the President has established the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response.' He will meet with us tomorrow to launch this effort. The Department of Homeland Security, along with other Departments, will be part of the task force and will assist the Administration with its response to Hurricane Katrina,

Our goal at the Department of Homeland Security is to . . . return every single illegal entrant x2014 no exceptions, ... It should be possible to achieve significant and measurable progress to this end in less than a year.

This 30-minute seating rule was a sensible measure when first applied, ... Now, almost four years later, significantly enhanced layers of security ranging from hardened cockpit doors to air marshals make it reasonable to eliminate this requirement.

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security.

The world is not going to stop moving because we are very focused on Katrina. Part of the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security is to deal with all hazards, everything that's out there, and to continue to be able to keep our eye on everything that may happen in the future,

We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.

These grants provide an-other layer of security to help protect ports from terrorism, safeguard nearby communities and ensure the uninterrupted flow of global commerce,