Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.

I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

Do every single thing you can to protect yourself, your family, and your country.

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

Nearly 30 million people ride Amtrak each year, and they should board the trains knowing that safety is a paramount priority.

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack.

You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

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.

But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations.

It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China to anticipate worst-case scenario, and to do everything possible to guard against them.

Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber - reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian - the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.

We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

Every threat must be taken seriously.

If you don’t know who they are, where they are, and what they’re planning, you can’t get them before they get you.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

I can't set one foot out of my house or anywhere in the world without security.

Well, what every place needs is a security plan that protects it.

Safety is top priority for us, and all our drivers are fully certified; all of them are checked. Their addresses are checked. Backgrounds are checked. To whatever extent the Indian system makes it possible to check.

Safety is not just about trying really hard and being really careful. You have to design technology that makes it possible for a computer to be safe.