Jeh Johnson

we have to address the underlying causes in those countries

We want to eventually use this office to extend its reach out into the field.

I want this office to focus on taking our efforts... to the next level.

Today, 14 years after 9/11, it is still a dangerous world.

We should do the right thing by accepting more, but we have to be careful in doing it.

Government does not have all the answers or all the talent.

My priority has been focusing on the communities that I believe are most vulnerable, at least some members of the community, to appeals from ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other terrorist groups overseas who are actively targeting individuals in…

I am interested in promoting cooperation with local law enforcement for reasons of public safety.

I believe that such matters should be investigated. I also believe that Congress can help in this regard.

I would like to see more use of that method versus trying to make the journey through Mexico, which is very dangerous and crossing our border illegally.

Jeh Johnson says that he's asked for six very specific actions.

Groups like ISIL or Al Qaeda now are calling publicly for attacks in the west, of people they have never recruited, specifically they have never trained, they never even met. Someone could decide on their own to answer that call with…

At the sequester level, that would represent a major step backward in homeland security.

I'm urging our rule-writers, our lawyers, to get this done as quickly as possible.

I have in 16 months in office become very committed to our icebreaking mission, particularly in the Arctic.

I have said to TSA I want to be sure that when it comes to the managed inclusion facet of the program, that we look at that and we manage that very carefully.

You have to show the population of Central America that you are sending people back.

I appreciate the leadership that many Members of this Committee in particular showed in getting us a fully funded DHS for FY 2015.

I support the idea of legislating cybersecurity. I think it is something we really need to do.

I believe that the McCaul bill, as between the two, is a better bill.

I want Congress, I am urging Congress to avoid sequestration for my Department.

Detention is appropriate in many circumstances, in my judgment, but it is not right in every case, and it is usually expensive.

I do not intend to pull back or take my foot off the gas in terms of homeland security.

I think that legislating information sharing between the private sector and the government is the overarching objective that we ought to try to achieve.

The problem we have is that the marketplace is demanding deeper and deeper encryption.