Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoffis an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under Presidents George W. Bush andBarack Obama, and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as United States Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth28 November 1953
CountryUnited States of America
If you start to plan in an emergency, you're not planning, you're improvising,
We offered to move him to another office far away from the FEMA building, where he could do no harm, ... We told him that he would have a nice desk, a telephone and a secretary, and that he could spend all day rewriting his resume.
We owe the American people a full accounting from all levels of government concerning what went right and what went wrong with the initial Katrina response,
The best principle is not only to fight the last battle, ... In July we talked a lot about subways. In September we talked a lot about hurricanes. We still need to talk about aviation, about avian flu.
That is unacceptable and we are going to change that immediately.
It's important to allow the new people who have the responsibility ... to have access to the information we need to do better, ... We don't want to sacrifice the real ability to get a full picture of Mike's experiences; we don't want to sacrifice that ability simply in order to make an image point.
As far as my agency is concerned, port security really rests principally with the Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection.
A well-designed TWP will provide legal channels for US employers and foreign-born workers to meet the needs of a vibrant and successful US economy without disadvantaging American workers,
At some level, obviously, I have to authorize everything,
As long as the president wants me to continue to do that work and thinks I can make a contribution, I'm going to stay at my post.
That 'perfect storm' of a combination of catastrophes exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight,
That's why we have asked our procurement people to look hard when the invoices come in for contracts, to make sure these are fair and reasonable prices and to make necessary adjustments to assure that there is appropriate performance and that the public is getting value for its money.
At the end of the day, if we don't give people in any business some sense that they have consistent rules ... then we're creating a regulatory system that is doomed to failure.
Completing the Border Infrastructure System will strengthen our efforts to reduce illegal entry to the United States. Congress provided us the authority to ensure this project is completed, and I intend to use it,