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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

People are pulled towards the best in themselves, and spotlighting the right is a much stronger approach than nagging.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.