There will always be more to do, but today, America is significantly stronger and safer than ever before,

I'm honored to join the extraordinary team you've assembled to lead America. The size and scope of this challenge are immense ... an extraordinary mission. But we will carry it out.

If America has the opportunity to make a strategic investment that not only enhances security but makes us a better, safer, stronger, or healthier country, then we need to do that. If you secure every home town, then the homeland is secure.

I think for a long time we thought we were 'fortress America' and that we were impenetrable. Maybe in our heart of hearts we knew sooner or later that it was going to happen, ... But to take a look at the president and extraordinary vice president ... I couldn't think of a better team at a tougher time to be leading America, so I'm optimistic about it.

America understands and hopefully appreciates, ... when there is that kind of information, we share it no matter how incomplete it may be.

to make North America more secure and more prosperous.

Protecting this information is critically important. Shut them down and you shut down America as we know it,