Stewart Baker Quotations

The point is, you can't be sure if you're legal in a lot of areas.

We're moving to an area where international travelers' fingerprints are going to be part of their identifier.

There are more safeguards in this transaction than in any past port deal.

It is appropriate to examine the government record, as well as the company record.

We now have access to information we didn't have before. ... It's no longer a 'gap.' We can have it anytime we like.

Wiretapping has a long history of enthusiastic use in France.

We wanted to look at this one quite closely because it relates to ports. It is important to focus on this partner as opposed to just what part of the world they come from. We came to the conclusion that the transaction should not be halted.

We were eager to have them continue in that. And P&O had become part of our best-practices program ... for security of the supply chain. We wanted to make sure that they (DP World) would continue with that.

This isn't a headquarters city for banks anymore. Decisions for the largest banks are now made out of market, when before it was all handled locally.

This is a full review without preconceptions. We are going to give this transaction a very robust examination.

This is a very big win for this administration. It is going to be the definitive statement on this issue for years to come.

If there's a way to solve the problem of actually getting all that information together and setting it in the hands of somebody who can make a useful decision, then it's a promising possibility.

In Africa, I've had officials tell us if you bring in encryption equipment, they'll throw you in jail.

The company will be taking over P&O North America, which is a U.S. company, and they do not have plans to change that corporate structure at this time.

The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks.

Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans?

There’s a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you’re doing the right thing,

It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.