Department Of Homeland Security Quotes:

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

- Doc Hastings

topic: September, Congress, Homeland Security, September 11th, Department Of Homeland Security

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

- L. Neil Smith

topic: Believe, Usa, America, Patriot Act, Homeland Security

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.

- Janet Napolitano

topic: Technology, Tsa, Would Be, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

- Janet Napolitano

source: "State of the Union" with John King, transcripts.cnn.com. April 19, 2009.

topic: Rights, Lasts, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

- Warren Rudman

topic: Moving, Communication, Issues, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

- John Poindexter

topic: Community, Defense, Elements, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

In the department of homeland security and each agency that's there there's a morale problem. It's a different morale problem in each one.

- Steve King

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Agency, Different, Problem, Department Of Homeland Security

Well, Rush, look what happened? 9/11 happened, and we didn't know it in advance. That's right, we got hit, we got hit big time. We need a new agency to make sure it doesn't happen again, Rush." And that was the excuse for starting Department of Homeland Security. The government grows and grows and grows and grows, and what do we get? Little old ladies wanded, scanned for bombs and weapons under their skirts next to the incontinence diapers. A bunch safer.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Government, Agency, Needs, Incontinence, New Age

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

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

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

topic: Success, Men, Tsa, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

Young people now reside in a world in which there are few public spheres or social spaces autonomous from the reach of the market, warfare state, debtfare, and sprawling tentacles of what is ominously called the Department of Homeland Security.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Space, People, Warfare, Department Of Homeland Security, Tentacles

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

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Running, Team, Attention, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

A second Homeland Security official has been arrested, a 49-year-old guy named Frank Figueroa, he was caught exposing and fondling himself to a teenage girl in a shopping mall in Florida. Do you realize? If Osama bin Laden was a 14-year old girl, we would have had him by now. ... Who is going to start protecting us from the Department of Homeland Security? ... It kind of makes you long for the good old wholesome days of the Clinton administration.

- Jay Leno

topic: Girl, Teenage, Florida, Old Guys, Department Of Homeland Security

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

- Solomon Ortiz

topic: Organization, Justice, Support, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

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

topic: Office, Calling, Lapses, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

- Warren Rudman

topic: Taken, Aggravation, Long, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

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

source: "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.

topic: Media, Granddaughter, Needs, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

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

topic: Thinking, Agency, States, Intelligence Agencies, Homeland Security

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

- Jim Ryun

topic: Energy, Use, Shipping, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

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

topic: Law, Immigration, Borders, Fencing, Homeland Security

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

- Condoleezza Rice

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

topic: Homeland Security, Needed, Department, Department Of Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security recommends a three-day supply of water consisting of one bottle per day for each person in your home. Plus one extra bottle to give you all something to kill each other over on day four.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Home, Giving, Water, Department Of Homeland Security

From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.

- Chuck Todd

topic: Children, Government, Drug, Department Of Homeland Security, Prescription Drugs