"Billions of times a day, somebody is getting up in the morning with a sole purpose and job to try to penetrate the U.S. Government at any level."
"If American people stop trusting their institutions to the point where it's not governable, guess what? Bad guys win."
"A perfectly thriving state can in a matter of months, even days, be transformed into an arena of fierce armed conflict..."
"If we don't have something that doesn't expand Government but focuses our cybersecurity efforts, we are going to be in for a long run."
"So, Chairman Rogers, can you describe the potential effect a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure like this could have in the United States?"
"I would look at all the ways they're coming at us."
"That's the scary part."
"What we know is they'd love to get access to people's data from a nation-state perspective."
"And again, that's my argument for the Cyber Director."
"I think most cities in America are not prepared for this, and they have old systems."
"When you pay it, guess what? More people are deciding they want to get into the business and try and extract you from your money, and that's the problem we're running into."
"I can tell you in my work in some of the private work that I do, including being vice chairman of Mitre Corporation, we haven't seen any, you know, flip one vote to another vote. Have not seen that."