I'm right now, I'm more concerned about... trying to do public anecdote to these un-American, unpresidential, unsubstantiated -- there's no historical antecedent. It's corrosive. It's undermining the legitimacy, sowing seeds of doubt in…

I want a full-throated condemnation, an aggressive tweetstorm that condemns these men, their actions and everybody that thinks and would act like them.

I doubt if there's a Republican or Democrat today, Mayor or Governor that wouldn't contest the unilateral incursion of Federal agents without coordination with state and local law enforcement officials.

I think the Mayor of Chicago has handled it beautifully. She said she wanted to be cautiously optimistic, it certainly was a very thoughtful and kind response in spite of the declarations from the White House.

They may have a few arrests. They may have a few imprisonments. But they're not going to sustain that commitment and nothing in his plan -- I'm not even sure they have a plan.

While he may think he has the authority and legally, he might. He will not get and achieve the outcomes that I believe he wants and the President wants and the mayor wants, if you act unilaterally.

I'm disappointed in my President, because it seems like it's a reality TV approach toward dealing with a very, very serious problem.

I think [a comprehensive immigration approach] will add more to border security than any number of fences we can put across the border.

So, I think if the president is looking to make America great, that's his goal, he also has to make it safe.

If we endure another attack and the intelligence officials had indications or information regarding that attack and the president did not want to listen to that for whatever reason, the responsibility for that attack would fall on the…

DHS has made only limited progress with BioWatch and the National biosurveillance integration system--and at great expense.

Either we make these effective tools or we replace them.

either we make these effective tools or we replace them.

There are five theaters of war: Air, land, sea, space, and there is a fifth theater going on right now, and it is cyber.

I don't think the broader global community is prepared for the magnitude of infectious diseases.

If we can immunize them to the danger that they are running to, that is the right thing to do.

If you were going to try to build a biological weapon or somehow genetically change its composition, I suspect that there are plenty of research institutions, both public and private, that have that kind of intellectual property that, if…

We have to accept the reality that it exists today, and we have to be preemptive in preparing.

if we are serious about biodefense, an integrative, comprehensive approach, with somebody having budget authority located in the White House, preferably right next to the President of the United States, we think maximizes our ability to…

We need to be preemptive in anticipation that one or the other or both might occur, and we are not prepared for that pathogen in our midst.

I do not believe that the Federal Government--we cannot secure the country from bioweapons and pathogens inside the Beltway.

I do not see how you can have a good security policy without a good guest worker program.

There is obviously a consensus within the intelligence community both in the United States and elsewhere that it's a serious threat. My sense is that this is probably a new kind of threat.

The Labor Department's rulemaking process should be a model for how Government can work with stakeholders in crafting regulations that are practical and effective.