Ted Stevens Quotes

The safety of the country stands above all other considerations, and no matter what the cost, the safety of the country must be assured.

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

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.

Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterintelligence at U.S. weapons labs?

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

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

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.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

Every threat must be taken seriously.

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

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

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

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.

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

We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.

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

I always try to be safe; even when something looks dangerous, it actually isn't to me.

There's so many things, when you're in national security, that you do that aren't perfect, but you do them because you think you're doing what the country needs to be safe.

It has been clear for some time now that we have to do more for domestic and external security. I am prepared for that.

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

I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country.

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.

I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.