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Quotes by United States Secretary Of Homeland Security of the Authors - Page 1

I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Isis
Problem
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We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
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Gun Control
Homeland
Homeland Security
Meaningful
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Gun Control Gun Control
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The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
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Arc
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Union
Toward
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War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Natural Order
Bury
War Children Parents
Violates
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Rhetoric that vilifies American Muslims is counter to our efforts. It's a setback to our Homeland Security efforts.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Homeland
Homeland Security
Rhetoric
Setback
Counter
Efforts
Muslims
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We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Lone Wolf
Moments
Phases
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And so border security is not simply preventing people from getting in, but very often preventing somebody from leaving for the wrong reasons.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Border Security
Leaving
Preventing
Security
Wrong Reasons
Border
Reasons
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I hope that the states are taking seriously their obligations to harden the cybersecurity around the election infrastructure that Americans rely upon and need.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Election
Obligation
Rely
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How could somebody be comfortable with authorizing legally the use of lethal force? My view is if you become comfortable with it, then you should get out of the job.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Lethal
Legally
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It is almost always the case that when someone self-radicalizes, someone close to them sees the sign, which is why we continue to encourage public awareness, public vigilance.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Vigilance
Sees
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Politics, in my judgment, has become not just the means to a policy ends, but it's become the end itself. Politics has become the sport that we all watch, and we all pay attention to.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Sports
Attention
Mean
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Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Legal
Assassination
Conflict
Consistent
Principles
Armed
Constitute
Definition
Lethal
Objective
Valid
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I'll never forget what a Catholic priest told me; he said, "If you try to padlock the door, you have to give people an alternative path - an alternative, safer path. You can't padlock, and you shouldn't padlock a burning building."
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Catholic
Giving
People
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It's better for candidates to suggest ideas that are responsible, not ones that are incapable of being executed. People are influenced by what their leaders tell them. And bringing the level of rhetoric down brings the temperature down.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Candidates
Incapable
Rhetoric
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Bringing
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Suggest
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There is a terrorist threat to this country that remains, and I believe that counter-terrorism needs to be the cornerstone of our mission, our vast mission... and aviation security is something that we still have a fair amount of concerns about.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
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Aviation
Remains
Security
Terrorist
Believe I Believe Country
Concerns
Cornerstone
Vast
Fair
Fair Amount
Mission
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The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Government
Absence
Authority
Executive Power
Problem
Secrecy
Suspicious
Void
Worst
Picture
American Public
Public
Executive
Fill
Official
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I think that the potential for homegrown terrorist attacks is something that we have to be very concerned about, because, in many respects, it's harder to detect when you have an independent actor who may be living in our midst, in our own communities.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Community
Independent
Thinking
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President Trump talks about extreme vetting, and we actually do have extreme vetting when it comes to refugee resettlement. Refugee resettlement is the most thorough, cumbersome, multilayered vetting system we have for the admission of anyone to the country.
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Country
President
Thorough
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History will record not only the transformational changes President Obama brought about, but also that in 2008, he was elected president with 69 million votes - the largest popular vote for any one person in the history of this country, based on a campaign of hope and inspiration.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
President Obama
Campaign
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Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
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Emotion
Prejudice
Public Office
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Rhetoric
Unreasonable
Suggest
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Whip
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No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Travel
Border Patrol
Desperate
Enough
Illegal
Length
Long
Mexico
Migration
Poverty
Security
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Violence
Wall
Enough Long Will
Border
Countries
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Entire
Flee
Her
Patrol
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If you build - if you spend billions of taxpayer dollars to build a wall over, let's say, a mountain, if you build a 10-foot wall over a 10,000-foot mountain, and someone is determined to climb the 10,000-foot mountain, they're not going to be deterred by the 10-foot wall. It's a matter of common sense.
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In my view, and in the view of a lot of intelligence experts, the terrorist threat that we face now has morphed significantly from the days of 9/11 to homegrown violent extremism. We have to be concerned and focused on homegrown violent extremism, countering violent extremism that exists within our borders.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
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Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Frustrating
Intolerance
Midst
Milk
Suspicion
American People
Brand
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Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims. So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a - a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them - to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Dignity
Islam
Theology
Battlefield
Frankly
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In Fact
Muslims
Occupying
Refer
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Immigration is the most difficult issue I've ever dealt with, and I've dealt with some tough issues: drones, gays in the military, WikiLeaks, Guantanamo. But immigration is hardest because there are so few people willing to talk and build consensus. Everybody's firmly made up their mind. It's a polarized issue.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
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Drones
Guantanamo
Immigration
Wikileaks
Dealt
Few People
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Gays
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The Secret Service hates to complain about something. They're secret by nature. They're not boastful; they don't like to be in the limelight. And therefore, they need middle management, i.e., a Cabinet-level person, to be their advocate, to Congress, to the White House, to ensure that they have adequate funding.
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We continually evaluate the world situation, and we not infrequently make changes to aviation security. We either step it up or we feel sometimes we're in a position to dial it back, and so this is something that happens periodically, and people should not overreact to it or over-speculate about what's going on.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
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Evaluate
World Step People
Continually
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There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Communist
Grandfather
Prejudice
Rhetoric
Activities
Committee
Dragged
Everyone Else
Examples
Explained
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Patriots
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The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody got interdicted at the border, somebody got interdicted before they could get on an airplane, somebody was arrested providing material support to terrorism. Homeland Security means very often something you never hear about.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Airplane
Arrested
Good News
Homeland
Homeland Security
Providing
Terrorism
Border
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The good news is that the international coalition, in which our military contributes, has done a lot to reduce the ground space, the territory in Iraq, Syria that ISIL once occupied a couple years ago. That's a good thing. And a lot of that, frankly, has occurred in Trump administration, so I'll give them credit for that.
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Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Bridges
Counterproductive
Entering
Homeland
Homeland Security
Suggestions
Ban
Communities
Efforts
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Region
Simplistic
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What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Atlanta
Caught
Luther
Motivated
By The People
Famous Person
Lee
Martin Luther King
Spike
Spike Lee
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And we need a president who is a uniter, not a divider; who can lower the temperature, not raise the temperature. And I wish President Trump would spend more time trying to go beyond his immediate base to reach people, and use the presidential microphone to try to bring people together, instead of the rhetoric that seems to divide us.
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People
Presidential
Wish
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ISIL, AQ, now have the ability to literally reach into our homeland through social media, through the Internet, to recruit and inspire. It makes for a more complicated homeland security environment. And so it requires a whole of government approach, not just military and law enforcement, homeland security, aviation security, and the like.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Aviation
Enforcement
Homeland
Homeland Security
Inspire
Law Enforcement
Recruit
Social Media
Government Internet Law
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In my view, targeted lethal force is at its least controversial when it is on its strongest, most traditional legal foundation. The essential mission of the U.S. military is to capture or kill an enemy. Armies have been doing this for thousands of years. As part of a congressionally authorized armed conflict, the foundation is even stronger.
Jeh Johnson / United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Legal
Capture
Conflict
Controversial
Enemy
Stronger
Armed
Authorized
Lethal
Mission
Targeted
Thousands Of Years
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There's a lot of sensitivity about federal involvement in elections around the country. I think that it would be appropriate to consider - whether there should be some basic federal minimum standards to the cybersecurity around the election infrastructure. We have federal standards for aviation security, for auto safety, for a lot of things, and elections are pretty important in the country.
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