John Brennan Quotes

The safety of the American people has got to be our number one priority. That is our most important problem.

First and foremost, my job is to protect the American people.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

We will not contract out the security of the American people …. You can’t compromise the safety of the American people.

I want to give the American people assurances that we are protecting them.

We're not going to take the risk when it comes to the safety of the American people. No longer.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens.

The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.

The one thing that our nation is truly responsible for is securing the nation, make sure the citizens are safe.

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

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

But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters.

The president's priority is to protect the safety and security of the American people. That's the physical security of the American people as well as the prosperity of the American people.

If the Bush Administration cannot ensure Americans that they will be safe from the flu, how will they protect our country against a possible bio-terror or chemical attack? The American people deserve better.

I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way. As president, that is exactly what I'll do.

The safety of the people is the first and foremost responsibility of government… We are not as prepared as we should be with our public safety network…. The margin for error is exceedingly and uniquely low.

The threat is there, and we get paid to tell Americans it is there.

Government's first responsibility is the safety of its citizens.

Ensuring the safety and security of our monuments and infrastructure is critical to protecting our communities and the American people.

We protect the American people from a staggering range of threats. But make no mistake, securing the homeland against terrorism remains our top priority.

I am honored to be nominated by President Trump to lead the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security in safeguarding the American people.