Asa Hutchinson Quotes

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

The gatekeepers must change.

When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no.

If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

The process of establishing the identity of passport applicants needs to be strengthened by introducing a requirement for some applicants to attend a passport office in person.

There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.

With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.

As more of our medical records are stored electronically, the threats to our privacy will increase.

I have no doubt that if you’re going to fight terrorism you must have a secure, national personal, identification system

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts.

Hopefully, the world will not have a lot of different privacy standards requirements--particularly some commonality between the United States and Europe.

Health data standardization is not so unlike trying to achieve world peace.. Everyone wants it, but no one is sure how to get there.

Secretary Clinton was warned repeatedly about her duty to secure classified information and that her unsecure server did not meet that standard.

My life experience confirms that the U.S. government frequently overclassifies data. But that's a stronger argument for not dumping large volumes of government traffic on an unclassified personal server than it is a justification for retroactively challenging classification decisions.

There is no secure data center in the world; they have all been broken into. We can help you prepare for it and minimize the damage when it does occur.

Why do we not have online voting? There's a security system in place already - on our cellphones. We already use biometrics to log into our banking. We use it to log into our health records. Why can't we have online safe and secure voting?

Regulators around the world have achieved an unprecedented level of collaboration since the financial crisis to create global standards for financial institutions. American regulators have largely viewed these international standards as a floor, and imposed higher standards on U.S. institutions.

We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.

Introducing ID cards isn't a matter of great national security importance.

Businesses that make consumer privacy a point of competitive differentiation will enjoy greater customer loyalty.

I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.