Adam Schiff Quotes

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.

The organizing premise of any nation's foreign policy is the protection of the homeland.

I think people are listening to our message of securing the homeland first, keeping the American people safe and improving our economic situation. I think those things are being received well, and we're moving forward here.

My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy, about national security, about how we structure our forces and about how we use U.S. military power.

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it.

Border security and homeland security are one and the same.

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

I can do whatever is necessary to protect the United States.

The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision.

I promise you, I promise you that Donald Trump knows, Donald Trump knows that the primary role of the president is to keep us safe.

People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it's very simple: border security is national security.

One of our pillars has to be national security - our nation's security both domestically and abroad.

It is my great honor to represent the men and women of DHS who work every day to enforce our laws and secure our nation.

As a national security aid, I worked with our military to strengthen our national defense.

I think we'll see it mostly in the United States. We're getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we're basically defenseless.

In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

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 can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.

My thinking is, government is really there to do the things that people absolutely can't do for themselves. And that's mostly involved with the things that might kill you. And what might kill me? The environment and terrorism.