Homeland Security Quotes - Page 2

• While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Military, Mean, Challenges

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• Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it

  Jim Clyburn

  Real, Fog, Agendas

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• There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

  Shelley Berkley

  Cities, Giving, Desire

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• Because of various security lapses, some senators are calling for a probe of the security at the offices of the Department of Homeland Security. The investigation will be conducted by the Department of Irony.

  Amy Poehler

  Office, Calling, Lapses

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• After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

  Jeff Flake

  September 11, Defense, Spending

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• The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

  Barack Obama

  Men, America, Important

  Remarks by the President on the FY2016 Budget, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 2, 2015.

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• I go to social media, check out my granddaughter's new boyfriend, but the Department of Homeland Security can't figure out they need to be tracking they jihadi web sites?

  Carly Fiorina

  Media, Granddaughter, Needs

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.

  Duncan Hunter

  Law, Immigration, Borders

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• The TSA's airport body scanners have been shown to be so ineffective, the Homeland Security chairman suggested using traditional metal detectors. While LaGuardia will continue to just have a scarecrow dressed as a cop.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Airports, Tsa, Body

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• Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Needed, Department, Available

  "Qatar offers $100m to relief fund". www.cnn.com. September 4, 2005.

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• I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Father, Law, Training

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• The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

  Bob Inglis

  Government, Names, Federal Government

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• I agree that we have to have the toughest screening and vetting that we can have, but I don`t think a halt is necessary. What we have to do is put all of our resources through the Department of Homeland Security, through the State Department, through our intelligence agencies, and we have to have an increased vetting and screening .

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Thinking, Agency, States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If it's concerning immigration, do something on immigration, put your concerns on the President's actions and I'll vote on them. I'm not going to play politics and start playing around with the Homeland Security, there's no pressure that's going to change where I am.

  Joe Manchin

  Change, Play, President

  "Republicans struggle to avoid Homeland Security shutdown" by Deirdre Walsh and Ted Barrett, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2015.

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• I assume Obama knows about stop and frisk, so this is not the person that should be the head of homeland security. I had to say something. Kelly's nomination would go against who President Obama is.

  Adepero Oduye

  President, Nominations, Assuming

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• As soon as I enter office I am going to ask Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to begin a comprehensive review of these cases in order to develop a list of regions and countries from which immigration must be suspended until proven and effective vetting mechanisms can be put in place.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Order, Justice

  Source: time.com

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• There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this kind of thing can happen again here. And so in addition to the report assessing what exactly happened, what we have also done is to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security and our intelligence teams are working with the various folks who run our elections.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Team, Attention

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We have had a lot of whistle-blowing going on out of the Department of Homeland Security, low morale. I want to make sure [John Francis Kelly] understands the agency he's stepping into. So I'll reserve judgment until after confirmation hearings.

  Claire McCaskill

  Agency, Want, Hearing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

  Harry Belafonte

  Dark, Rights, Citizens

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• I think that [John Kelly] will bring law and order. And what I'm hoping for with this is that the restoration of the rule of law, especially with regard to immigration, that is the main principle that needs to be driven by the secretary of homeland security.

  Steve King

  Thinking, Law, Order

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think what you're going to get from President-elect [ Donald] Trump is all of his folks together - Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, John Kelly, CIA, Homeland Security, everyone that you would want in the room, making decisions about that particular document and treaties like that document as to how we're going move forward.

  Reince Priebus

  Moving, Thinking, Decision

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Borders, Construction

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We are saving American lives every single day. The court system has not made it easy for us. We've even created a new office in Homeland Security dedicated to the forgotten American victims of illegal immigrant violence, of which there are many.

  Donald Trump

  Office, Saving, Violence

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There's hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn't have a cause or effect that's generated abroad. Increasingly, we must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Government, Data

  Source: www.salon.com

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• While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Success, Men, Tsa

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