Loretta Lynch Quotes

Let's put the safety and security of the American people first.

The American people have got a touchstone: Which party voted for the tools necessary to protect America and which party didn't? And that's what I'm trying to get people to focus on.

My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

The American people expect the president of the United States to be prepared to support action to protect the people of this nation. And I know Donald Trump will.

This, in my view, is the highest responsibility of the President of the United States, which is to maintain the safety of the American people.

When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.

Those who heralded the decision not to give law enforcement the tools necessary to protect the American people just simply don't see the world the way we do.

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.

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

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

The Senate is not interested in the security of the American people.

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

Every citizen a Sentinel: every home a sentry box

I can do whatever is necessary to protect the United States.

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

The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, whether the threat is a domestic one or from abroad.

There's one job of government and that's to protect its citizens and protect those in law enforcement.

I think people are listening to our message of securing the homeland first, keeping the American people safe and improving our economic situation. I think those things are being received well, and we're moving forward here.

I think it's only fair that Americans take into account who can keep them safe. Who has the best ideas for defeating ISIS. And protecting us here at home. I think I have laid out what I believe would work.

I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people... That's why I said to Afghanistan: If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist.

In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

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

I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.

I will never, ever apologize for protecting the safety and security of the American people.