Janet Napolitano Quotes

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• Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

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  Smart, Skills, Looks

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• You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

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  Wall, Show Me

  "Napolitano Bludgeons Border-Fence Proposal", www.wnd.com. December 21, 2005.

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• If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

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  School, Years, Today

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• You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

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  Jobs, Safety, Focus

  "Secretary Napolitano's Remarks to the National Press Club". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 16, 2010.

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• Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

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  Children, Educational, School

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• So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

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  Thinking, Needs, Anticipation

  Secretary Napolitano's Remarks to the National Press Club, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 16, 2010.

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• Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

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  Travel, Air, People

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• But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

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  Country, Mean, Technology

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• Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

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  School, Technology, Years

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• Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.

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  Moving, Thinking, Issues

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• Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

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  Country, Luxury, Roots

  "Napolitano defends report on right-wing extremist groups". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2009.

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• We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not nor will we ever monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.

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  Responsibility, Rights, People

  "Chorus of Protest Grows Over Report Warning of Right Wing Radicalization". www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2009.

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• And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

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  Patience, Commitment, Play

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• It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.

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  Technology, Tsa, Would Be

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• I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

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  Color, Tasks, Looks

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• I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

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  Long, United States, Would Be

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• Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).

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  Christmas, Technology, Deployment

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• The United States is the nation of innovation. And we have the best innovators, really, in the world. Our international property is one of our huge national economic assets. Yes, so to the extent that some are seeking to infiltrate our network, steal that information, not to have invest in the research and development that goes into innovation, that's a really big deal.

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  Innovation, World, Stealing

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• It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

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  Immigration, United States, Als

  "Napolitano Says Al Qaeda-Type Terrorists in U.S". www.foxnews.com. October 13, 2009.

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• Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure they have the technology to make it work

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  Technology, Immigration, Borders

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• It's all about who gets to work and making sure they're legally present in our country. And to do that nationally E-verify becomes a key component. It certainly needs to available, effective and as inexpensive as possible and that employer needs to use it as a tool. Some of the arguments that are made about how it works or does not work don't carry much water with me. I've already used it for several years. It works.

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  Country, Keys, Years

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• It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.

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  Cancer, Home, Intervention

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• Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there.

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  Country, Real, Issues

  "Interview with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano". Interview with Neil Macdonald, www.cbc.ca. April 20, 2009.

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• I believe we have to move, eventually in our country, toward a system of public financing that really works for candidates running for federal office. I will support that as president.

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  Running, Country, Believe

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• The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

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  Jobs, United States, Location

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