Michael Chertoff Year Quotations

What it means is that a lot of communities were working from a very low base. They either had very small grants the prior year or even no grants.

By the end of this year our department anticipates issuing a new inexpensive secure travel card for land border crossings.

We have made a lot of progress in the first year of Community Shield.

The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or a time to celebrate the end of the struggle. The threat is not going away. The enemy has not lost interest. ...Fundamentally, we're in a struggle about ideology. Terrorists want to remake the world in their own image and it is the image that is intolerant of the kinds of institutions that we cherish.

But one thing that we have done in the last four years is we have really put pressure on the leadership of this organization [Al Qaeda]. We have killed a significant number of leaders. We've captured others. Those that remain have to look over their shoulders, they have to be on the run. So that even if we don't manage to kill or capture them all within four years, what we do do is put the kind of pressure on them that makes them focus on their own skins, as opposed to carrying out attacks.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

We're now starting to see the fruits of seeds that were harvested when we started talking about this strategy a year or so ago.