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These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports.

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

I just want to keep America safe. Who could be against that?

Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.

We are much safer in the United States, but not yet safe.

To the American people … nine years after 9/11, nine years of spending, and nine years of beefing up security you are still unsafe even in the holiest and most sacred of days to you, Christmas Day….

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

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

Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

If the federal government won't secure the border, the State of Arizona will step in to complement federal efforts in a constitutional manner and protect the security of its citizens.

We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

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

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

No government ought to guarantee perfect security because no government can provide it.

“Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States"

The chief duty of our federal government is the safety and security of the American people.

Michael Chertoff and the Department of Homeland Security, they have the primary responsibility of ensuring that our ports are secure.

What we've done as a country is, we've said we owe it to our citizens to know who is traveling here and if they intend to do us harm.

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.

We don't want terrorists in Wyoming or anywhere else in this country. And we have got to make sure the federal government is doing its job by not allowing these folks into our states.