Jeh Johnson

I want an assurance that any last-point-of-departure airport from Cuba satisfies our U.S. screening standards.

I believe that the great majority of the American people... recognize that the police officer is there to protect and to serve the community.

I think that we should provide the Attorney General with that added discretion, along with some form of an adjudication process to adjudicate the denial if the attempted gun purchaser chooses to do so.

We have moved from a world of terrorist-directed attacks, to a world that also includes the threat of terrorist-inspired attacks.

I look forward to questions from this committee in terms of our aviation security efforts, efforts to secure the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

The FBI continues to, in my judgment, do an excellent job of detecting, investigating, preventing, and prosecuting terrorist plots here in the homeland.

We encourage the public to continue to travel, to continue to associate, to celebrate the holidays, celebrate the summer season, but public vigilance and public awareness can and do make a difference in this current environment.

I have observed this committee work in a collaborative fashion, and it has been really productive, so I thank you for that.

I believe that, consistent with the Second Amendment, as interpreted by the Supreme Court and consistent with a responsible gun owner's right to own a gun, we can and we should make it harder for a terrorist to obtain a gun to commit a…

the only thing I will add to that is the manner in which we approach and deal with communities, basically honest, peaceful communities, in which an international terrorist organization is trying to recruit, that is different from trying to…

If you see something, say something.

More surveillance, more technology, and there's a public messaging aspect of this too, which is if you come here, you're apprehended at the border and you're a recent arrival, we have to send you back.

That's not how a deportation works. It is not a criminal prosecution; deportation proceedings do not work that way.

We're not interested in rounding up people who have been in this country for years, who have become integrated members of society and who commit minor offenses and then released couple of days later. We're interested in the worse of the…

[c]ybersecurity is a shared responsibility, and it boils down to this: In cybersecurity, the more systems we secure, the more secure we are.

Cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, and it boils down to this: In cybersecurity, the more systems we secure, the more secure we are.

TSA is increasing the staffing of TSOs to help expedite the checkpoint process without sacrificing security.

The use of social media generally is something we are expanding upon in my 2 years as Secretary.

my overall goal for the Department of Homeland Security in my remaining 10 months in office is to leave it better than I found it

I anticipate, particularly as we move toward the National political conventions, that we are going to spend a lot of time working with local law enforcement in Cleveland, working with local law enforcement in Philadelphia.

Supporting State and local law enforcement in their counterterrorism efforts is very, very important in my judgment.

I have seen first-hand the effectiveness of our grants that support for the NYPD, for example, communications equipment, surveillance equipment, overtime for cops, for firefighters, and active-shooter training.

I support the President's budget. The President's budget request reflects hard choices to live within our caps.

The numbers are high. Definitely, the numbers are high. They are higher than I would like them to be.

We ought to appeal to people's sense of patriotism.