Michael Chertoff

You don't bargain with terrorists. You don't appease terrorists. And anybody who believes that this is about something we've done has to…

— Michael Chertoff

So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was…

— Michael Chertoff

The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the…

— Michael Chertoff

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

— Michael Chertoff

Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So…

— Michael Chertoff

I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules…

— Michael Chertoff

The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause…

— Michael Chertoff

We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work…

— Michael Chertoff

Al Qaeda is very media-savvy and very focused on what goes on in the global media.

— Michael Chertoff

But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I…

— Michael Chertoff

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've…

— Michael Chertoff

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New…

— Michael Chertoff

Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is…

— Michael Chertoff

And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start…

— Michael Chertoff

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

— Michael Chertoff

So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans…

— Michael Chertoff

But one thing that we have done in the last four years is we have really put pressure on the leadership of…

— Michael Chertoff

The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them.…

— Michael Chertoff

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates…

— Michael Chertoff

So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the gap [in…

— Michael Chertoff

We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill…

— Michael Chertoff

We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very…

— Michael Chertoff

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted -…

— Michael Chertoff

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning.…

— Michael Chertoff

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last…

— Michael Chertoff