Jared Polis Quotes

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.

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.

The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

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

American government has usually been pretty good in a crisis and pretty lousy at all other times.

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

Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

When there is a crisis, how you handle the crisis is just as important as the crisis.

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

When facing a national crisis, we cannot allow a political vacuum to exist.

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.

Direct threats require decisive action.

As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.

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.

Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks.

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

A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime.

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.