"The Department of Defense took 40 years to…" — Michael Chertoff

"The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got."

— Michael Chertoff

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30 Quotes by Michael Chertoff

Michael Chertoff has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing…
The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not…
So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the…
We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a…
We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists…
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was…
And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program…
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…
And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning…
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…

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More Defense Quotes

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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement. — Bashar al-Assad
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense… — Red Auerbach
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the… — Stanley Baldwin
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of… — Stanley Baldwin
It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know… — Ernie Banks
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. — Edward Abbey
Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense. — Bob Barr
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the… — Frederic Bastiat
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive… — Conrad Black
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar… — Aeschylus
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W. E. B. Du Bois

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