Michael Chertoff Quotes

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• I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration,…
• The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or…
• So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the gap [in border security] that…
• We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective...We haven't…
• We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill not only thousands…
• I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms…
• And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money…
• I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
• The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's…
• And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses…
• First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.
• So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with…
• The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York…
• The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.
• Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a…
• We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology,…
• 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…
• And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what…
• And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the…
• But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane…

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