Jeh Johnson

Could’ve been worse. It could've put out stuff that was much more damaging.

How does a 21-year-old enlisted member of the Massachusetts Guard get access to TS-level information?

I think DeSantis is making a very concerted effort to be the most aggressively conservative person in this field and is trying to go after Trump's base.

This could be wild. You could have the major candidate in the party, an indicted criminal defendant, out on bail.

I think Joe Biden and Muriel Bowser are absolutely right. Democrats lose elections, particularly presidents and mayors, who are perceived as soft on crime, in blue communities.

1,000 apprehensions per day overwhelms the system.

Social media, in my view, accentuates the point that our greatest strength as a free and open society is also our greatest vulnerability. Social media raises political awareness. You can mobilize a movement behind social media.

This was the Trojan Horse, 2016. 2016, I, as Secretary of Homeland Security, was very focused on potential cyber attacks on election infrastructure. And just before I left office, I declared the election infrastructure to be critical…

I think that comes perilously close to regulating speech.

Asylum is for persecution, escaping violence, political persecution.

the courts have gotten way to involved and what traditionally has been an area where the courts defer to the political branches of government to the point where our policy is muddled and confusing

Illegal immigration is a very information sensitive phenomenon, reacts sharply to information about perceived changes in enforcement policy in the United States.

to fix it requires an act of Congress, in all likelihood, you could do much of this through regulation, which would then be challenged in the courts.

We have to protect the DACA recipients.

I do not for a second give up on the possibility of further gun safety legislation.

The problem we have in this country nationwide is the prevalence of guns in America.

We can regulate guns in America, consistent with the Second Amendment.

We have to get off this point of view of the NRA that, if they give an inch, we're going to take a mile.

The prevalence of guns in America is the central problem.

It takes political courage to come together and put together legislation on comprehensive immigration reform.

The wrong way is, on 20 minutes' notice, to send people by bus or airplane to the Edgartown Airport or to Mass Ave. in front of the vice president's residence without giving local resources, NGOs, shelter's local government an opportunity…

If I were in office today as Secretary of Homeland Security, it might be my number one concern, that buoying just below the surface is a very large degree of unrest and a temptation toward violence.

I thought it was notable that he called out MAGA Republicans for not telling the truth, for not respecting the constitution, for not respecting the rule of law, and for not respecting the will of the people.

The actions that occurred during the Trump presidency around January 6 and before were actually far more serious than Watergate.

Based upon everything we know from public sources, including most notably the January 6 hearings, I believe that an aggressive prosecutor would be willing to take on the case against Donald Trump, or participation in a seditious…