Jeff Van Drew Quotes

For years, America has helped protect against terrorist attacks by telling Americans, 'If you see something, say something.' The same should go for protecting our elections against foreign interference.

America's elections are the foundation of our democracy - so protecting them is a priority for the FBI and our partners.

Election security is national security, and we have to start acting like it.

There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this kind of thing can happen again here. And so in addition to the report assessing what exactly happened, what we have also done is to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security and our intelligence teams are working with the various folks who run our elections.

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.

The blame for election interference belongs to the criminals who committed election interference. We need to work together to hold the perpetrators accountable, and keep moving forward to preserve our values, protect against future interference, and defend America.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.

Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of. And we were there to host a peaceful election, and we then found out a bunch of stuff was hacked. We probably would push to have another election to make sure that would be fair.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

No matter which party is in the White House, doubt in America's democratic institutions rattles our nation to its core. This should not be a partisan issue for any reason, as any candidate or party could be on the receiving end of a hack at any time.

If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it's going to get recorded because you don't know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process.

The professionals at the State Board of Elections must assume control of the county board of elections operations in Bladen County, which has shown itself incapable of managing fair elections.

Any country needs to know that there are consequences when they get involved in our elections. And I think that's why it's good that the investigations are going on and we're analyzing and we're looking into all of that, and I think we need to manage it accordingly.

Thank God for paper ballots.

Despite the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered in our presidential election, President Donald Trump and Republican leadership seem wholly uninterested in examining how and why Russia targeted us - and what we must do to prevent it from happening again.

I am very confident that in 2008, people's votes will count. I don't think they did in 2004. I think in 2008, they will.

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.