Political Quotes

Kristi Noem

The Public Record

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration; formerly Governor of South Dakota (2019–2025).

Quotes by year · 2010–20261,139 total · peak 2025 (582)
2010: 1 quote2011: 36 quotes2012: 22 quotes2013: 53 quotes2014: 66 quotes2015: 49 quotes2016: 83 quotes2017: 26 quotes2018: 7 quotes2020: 9 quotes2021: 32 quotes2022: 11 quotes2023: 44 quotes2024: 73 quotes2025: 582 quotes2026: 45 quotes
Jul 2, 2025

If you wait and we bring you to this facility, you don’t ever get to come back to America.

breitbart.com
Jul 2, 2025

If they self-deport and go home, they can come back legally. We will let them come back.

breitbart.com
Jul 2, 2025

The Department of Homeland Security has authorities that have never been utilized before, and I’m going to need some good minds on how to use those authorities.

nypost.com
Jul 2, 2025

What they’re doing is illegal.

nbcnews.com
Jul 2, 2025

And we’re going to actually go after them and prosecute them with the partnership of Pam if we can.

nbcnews.com
Jul 2, 2025

Because what they’re doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities, operations.

nbcnews.com
Jul 2, 2025

We’re working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them [CNN] for that.

nbcnews.com
Jul 2, 2025

Migrants are expected only to be housed temporarily at the site before being removed from the country.

thedailybeast.com
Jul 2, 2025

We’re going to actually go after them and prosecute them.

msnbc.com
Jul 1, 2025

We’re working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that. Because what they’re doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities, operations.

nypost.com
Jul 1, 2025

These rioters are cowards who’ll keep challenging us as long as they think they can get away with it.

nypost.com
Jul 1, 2025

These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America, that we’re trying to target and get out of our country because they are so deranged they don’t belong here.

huffpost.com
Jul 1, 2025

And while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself. And they had to get him off and get him medical attention.

huffpost.com
Jul 1, 2025

If you obstruct or assault our law enforcement, we will hunt you down and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

newsweek.com
Jul 1, 2025

This sure looks like obstruction of justice.

newsweek.com
Jul 1, 2025

Alligator Alcatraz and other facilities like it will give us the capability to lock up some of the worst scumbags who entered our country under the previous administration.

cnn.com
Jun 29, 2025

Under President Trump's leadership, we are working at turbo speed to deliver cost-effective and innovative ways to deliver on the American people's mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens.

newsweek.com
Jun 28, 2025

Under President Trump’s leadership, we are working at turbo speed on cost-effective and innovative ways to deliver on the American people’s mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens.

nbcnews.com
Jun 26, 2025

We've never believed that the United States should be the only option... The guarantee for a refugee is that they go somewhere to be safe and protected—it doesn't necessarily have to be the United States.

newsweek.com
Jun 26, 2025

Honduras and now Guatemala after today will be countries that will take those individuals and give them refugee status as well.

newsweek.com
Jun 26, 2025

Secretary Noem has been clear: If you assault a federal officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

nbcnews.com
Jun 25, 2025

If you assault a federal officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

newsweek.com
Jun 24, 2025

Under President [Donald] Trump's leadership, we are working at turbo speed on cost-effective and innovative ways to deliver on the American people's mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens.

reason.com
Jun 24, 2025

These new facilities will in large part be funded by FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program, which the Biden administration used as a piggy bank to spend hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars to house illegal aliens.

breitbart.com
Jun 24, 2025

Under President Trump’s leadership, we are working at turbo speed on cost-effective and innovative ways to deliver on the American people’s mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens.

usatoday.com

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