276 Quotes by Michael Chertoff

Threats do not begin or end in a single country, ... must focus on common strategies and common systems of protection.

The world is not going to stop moving because we are very focused on Katrina. Part of the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security is to deal with all hazards, everything that's out there, and to continue to be able to keep our eye on everything that may happen in the future,

We're going to make sure help is on the way immediately to those who need it,

Truckloads of water, ice, meals, medical supplies, generators, tents and tarpaulins

I want to have the people who are present here on the ground

We're going to have to go house to house in this city. We're going to have to check every single place to find people who may be alive and in need of assistance,

we have an ongoing flood situation even as we're in the middle of recovering from the hurricane.

once and for all .Ê.Ê. rather than simply going out and buying a lot of newfangled gadgets.

Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,