You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

We have to confront ignorance in our nation.

Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. [The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

In terms of the 'S' word, that does not enter my mind. And it never has done. In terms of An Attempt. Because I am stronger than that. I might be a weak person, but I can take pain.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.