One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.

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.

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.

It’s not just others that you need to forgive

We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.

Tasting what could have been—what should have been—didn't make it easier.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.