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
We're going to have to go house to house in this city. We're going to have to check every single place to find people who may be alive and in need of assistance,
We face an extraordinary threat to our national security and physical safety of the American people of a character that, at least in my lifetime, we have never faced before,
We're going to make sure help is on the way immediately to those who need it,
Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,
We've seen them attack in London, for example; we've seen them attack in Spain; we've seen them attack elsewhere, so I think we have to operate on the assumption that they do have some capability and they certainly have the intent.
The whole point of this program is let people decide the fate of their own lives, ... And I think that avoids the whole issue of someone coming from outside and saying, 'You must do this' or 'You must do that.'
The cost of identifying all those people and sending them back would be stupendous. It would be billions and billions of dollars,
Obviously, people feel strongly about their home communities and they tend to see their own risks to the exclusion of others. Our job is to balance.
From my own experience, I don't endorse those views,
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,
This is a system desperately in need of repair,
Admiral Allen has my full support in the very difficult work we have ahead,
All I have to do is say, 'You are empowered to go fulfill the mission,' and it gets done,
This is a picture that is improving but we have a lot more work to do,