I'll never forget what a Catholic priest told me; he said, "If you try to padlock the door, you have to give people an alternative path - an alternative, safer path. You can't padlock, and you shouldn't padlock a burning building." Jeh Johnson More Quotes by Jeh Johnson More Quotes From Jeh Johnson I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem. Jeh Johnson isis problem thinking We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment. Jeh Johnson lone-wolf phases moments I think that the potential for homegrown terrorist attacks is something that we have to be very concerned about, because, in many respects, it's harder to detect when you have an independent actor who may be living in our midst, in our own communities. Jeh Johnson independent community thinking President Trump talks about extreme vetting, and we actually do have extreme vetting when it comes to refugee resettlement. Refugee resettlement is the most thorough, cumbersome, multilayered vetting system we have for the admission of anyone to the country. Jeh Johnson thorough president country If you build - if you spend billions of taxpayer dollars to build a wall over, let's say, a mountain, if you build a 10-foot wall over a 10,000-foot mountain, and someone is determined to climb the 10,000-foot mountain, they're not going to be deterred by the 10-foot wall. It's a matter of common sense. Jeh Johnson common-sense mountain wall The Secret Service hates to complain about something. They're secret by nature. They're not boastful; they don't like to be in the limelight. And therefore, they need middle management, i.e., a Cabinet-level person, to be their advocate, to Congress, to the White House, to ensure that they have adequate funding. Jeh Johnson hate secret house There's a lot of sensitivity about federal involvement in elections around the country. I think that it would be appropriate to consider - whether there should be some basic federal minimum standards to the cybersecurity around the election infrastructure. We have federal standards for aviation security, for auto safety, for a lot of things, and elections are pretty important in the country. Jeh Johnson safety country thinking I hope that the states are taking seriously their obligations to harden the cybersecurity around the election infrastructure that Americans rely upon and need. Jeh Johnson rely election obligation The good news is that the international coalition, in which our military contributes, has done a lot to reduce the ground space, the territory in Iraq, Syria that ISIL once occupied a couple years ago. That's a good thing. And a lot of that, frankly, has occurred in Trump administration, so I'll give them credit for that. Jeh Johnson couple military giving And we need a president who is a uniter, not a divider; who can lower the temperature, not raise the temperature. And I wish President Trump would spend more time trying to go beyond his immediate base to reach people, and use the presidential microphone to try to bring people together, instead of the rhetoric that seems to divide us. Jeh Johnson presidential wish people In my view, and in the view of a lot of intelligence experts, the terrorist threat that we face now has morphed significantly from the days of 9/11 to homegrown violent extremism. We have to be concerned and focused on homegrown violent extremism, countering violent extremism that exists within our borders. Jeh Johnson terrorist violent threat Politics, in my judgment, has become not just the means to a policy ends, but it's become the end itself. Politics has become the sport that we all watch, and we all pay attention to. Jeh Johnson attention sports mean With every case from years ago there should be lessons learned. Jeh Johnson lesson-learned There are no easy fixes to this problem and Washington is bad at looking for long-term solutions, but this is not an easy problem and that is why we need to invest in a long-term solution. Jeh Johnson latest-headlines This is a problem that is international in scope. Jeh Johnson latest-headlines The government here has some obligation to try to reunite the children with their parents, how they're going to do that, I couldn't really tell you. It's not something we had to deal with in our administration. Jeh Johnson politics It's not something I would have adopted. Jeh Johnson politics The cyber threat to our country is going to get worse before it gets better, bad cyber actors — whether they’re nation states, cyber criminals, hacktivists, those who engage in ransomware — are increasingly aggressive, tenacious and ingenious. Jeh Johnson latest-headlines I don’t know that there needs to be one specific way to cast a ballot and record a vote, but there are a number of best practices. Jeh Johnson latest-headlines The President and I want to better focus our immigration enforcement resources on convicted criminals over undocumented immigrants who have been here for years, have committed no serious crimes, and, have, in effect, become peaceful and integrated members of the community. Jeh Johnson latest-headlines
