Janine di Giovanni Quotes

After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

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.

I am a common man. Why do I need security?

Stopping people you don’t trust is an essential ingredient. It is part of owning and governing the territory you’re patrolling

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.

If it were up to me, I wouldn't have security. But Hef thinks I'm naive. He feels I'm vulnerable to kidnapping.

Having a police presence on public transport is vital to ensuring customers are safe.

We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.

I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.

Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection.

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

Every threat must be taken seriously.

If we get hit again, with a biological or chemical attack, we will become a much less liberal society.

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

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.

When these attacks occur, as they likely will, we will wonder what more we could have done to stop them.

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

I do talk to individuals still in the business of tracking individuals in the homeland and abroad. A lot of them have felt that they were hanging on by their fingernails a bit in terms of tracking all the potential threats out there.

I'm not a security-type person: I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into all that.

My father was a security guard. I was a security guard.

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.

I think it can be very safe to go to O'Hare and Wrigley and Sox park and Soldier Field, but you have to deal with some reality. Just because a threat is not specific and verifiable doesn't mean nearly what it used to mean, in terms of you being able to sleep well at night.

Security has to be, and has long been, our government's top priority. It is imperative that we continue to diligently watch for potential threats by all appropriate means.