Kimberly Guilfoyle Quotes

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.

As one of the principal responsibilities of the government is to safeguard its citizens, it is entirely reasonable that it should look at what more might be done to improve security.

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

I have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.

Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.

Government's first responsibility is the safety of its citizens.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

I'm the British home secretary. My job is to protect the British public.

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.

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

The major thing of our government is to protect the people.

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

Safety and security are the most basic job of government. I understand that - both as a mayor who works every day to secure public safety and reduce crime, and also as someone who deployed in uniform to Afghanistan because I believed joining the military was part of my duty to help keep my country safe.

Lots of the free world has become weak. When you look at Brussels, when you look at the way they've handled things from law enforcement standpoints, when you look at Paris, when you look at so many other places, no, it's not. But neither is the United States a safe place, because we're allowing thousands of people to come in here. Nobody knows where they're from. Nobody knows who they are and they're coming in here by the thousands. And let me tell you something, we're going to have problems just as big or bigger than they've got.

Apparently we've got open borders. We've got people in this country all over the place that could be part of cells. After 9/11 happened, you have to understand, leadership and law enforcement after 9/11, they really got reamed for doing a horrible job of preventing it when in many people's minds it was preventable.

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.

If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time.

I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way. As president, that is exactly what I'll do.