Mike Todd Quotes

Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.

We shall guard as zealously the rights of the striker as those of the employer. But when riot is menaced it is different. The mob takes its own chance. Order will be kept at whatever cost. If it comes to shooting we shall shoot to hit. No blank cartridges or firing over the head.

The occupant should take all due and needful measures to restore and ensure public order and public safety.

When violence strikes [riots], then those in public responsibility have an immediate ... job, not to analyze, but to end disorder.

One of the biggest challenges for any Home Secretary - indeed, any government - is how we deal with emerging threats.

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed police officers become strangely commonplace after awhile.

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.

An intelligence unit staffed with full-time personnel should be established to gather, evaluate, analyze, and disseminate information on potential as well as actual civil disorders...It should use undercover police personnel and informants.

If cars and buses were attacked daily by petrol bombs or stones for 16 months in Washington, could you imagine it would be tolerated? It would not, because in the name of democracy, to preserve democracy, steps would be taken.

I will not allow continued planned street violence between rival factions to take place on the streets of Portland.

If you intend to use our beautiful city to cause mayhem, disturb the peace, create fear and commit violence, you are not welcome here.

My job as Home Secretary is to keep families and communities across our country safe.

I took over a city that had two riots in four years and I had none. And they knew they couldn't riot on me. And when I saw the people on the street in New York City, I said to myself, you're breaking Giuliani's rules. You don't take my streets. You can have my sidewalks, but you don't take my streets, because ambulances have to get through there, fire trucks have to get through there.

I think you have an enormous amount of fear and uncertainty in this country. And it's not just from San Bernardino or from Paris.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

Following the attacks in Paris, French President François Hollande has a completely different set of concerns. France needs more police, more security personnel and a greater emphasis on integration. He says that security is more important than the Stability Pact.

You have a great leader now, you have a great president, you have a tough president. He's not gonna be easy on people that are breaking the laws and people that show this tremendous violence. So I really have a feeling that you're gonna have a very, very peaceful and beautiful Paris.