John F. Kelly: “there is no one on this earth that is better positioned to tell you what the conditions are inside Guantanamo than me.”

The last thing I wanted to do is walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the secretary of homeland security. But I did something wrong and God punished me, I guess.

My predecessor, Jeh Johnson, just before he left, designated the whole system as critical infrastructure. I've had a lot of push-back from [M]embers of Congress, both sides of the aisle.

I think it's likely that the general was willing to, you know, sweep some things under the rug because he needed Porter.

They're coming here for a reason, and I sympathize with the reason. But the laws are the laws.