276 Quotes by Michael Chertoff

As far as my agency is concerned, port security really rests principally with the Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection.

We now know people need gas during emergencies and they have a responsibility - those people who run stations and ultimately those people who provide the fuel - have responsibility to hold up their end when a crisis comes.

A well-designed TWP will provide legal channels for US employers and foreign-born workers to meet the needs of a vibrant and successful US economy without disadvantaging American workers,

That would be hugely, hugely difficult, and require an enormous expenditure of resources.

At some level, obviously, I have to authorize everything,

Mike Brown talked about the need to take seriously this hurricane ... It was difficult to know where on the Gulf Coast it was going to land.

As long as the president wants me to continue to do that work and thinks I can make a contribution, I'm going to stay at my post.

Mike Brown has done everything he possibly could to coordinate the federal response to this unprecedented challenge. I appreciate his work, as does everybody here.

That 'perfect storm' of a combination of catastrophes exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight,