We've made substantial investments in our homeland security and disrupted plots that threatened to take American lives.
And today, our forces are fighting and dying once more, in faraway lands, to keep our homeland safe.
Our Homeland Security Secretary will give us an update on the overall situation.
We are reorganizing our homeland-security-related departments, most importantly, those dealing with border security.
"Our first line of defense, meaning the police, our hospital, EMS, our homeland security, they have done a tremendous job, " Lagafuaina said.
"It is clear to all that our homeland is going through difficult times, " Mr Pikrammenos said after accepting the mandate from President Papoulias.
Michelle Malkin persuasively argues that this is no time for business as usual if we are serious about the business of securing our homeland.
So we are -- we remain vigilant about protecting our homeland.
We are not oblivious to our responsibilities to defend our homeland.
"Whenever we get this kind of intelligence, we regularly share that with our homeland security advisers in every state so they have the same information we have, " Hutchinson said.
Thank you, Secretary Napolitano, for your introduction, but more importantly, your outstanding leadership in keeping our homeland secure and -- along with Admiral Papp -- keeping our Coast Guard strong.
"We have a new problem to solve -- the security of our homeland, " Bush said at a White House gathering of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, whose members represent 1, 100 cities.
We've got to do things differently in so many different aspects of our government, in order for the parts that are crucial to our homeland security and international security to work properly.
In the next four years we will continue to strengthen our homeland defenses, we will strengthen our intelligence gathering services, we will reform our military, the military will be an all-volunteer army.
These headwinds include a stubbornly high unemployment rate, a disturbing trend of increasing jobless claims, elevated commodity prices, a lackluster residential real estate and increasing sovereign debt problems overseas and, as previously discussed, on our homeland.
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Moreover, as Secretary Napolitano has said, once the suspect attempted to take down Flight 253 -- after his attempt it's clear that passengers and crew, our homeland security systems and our aviation security took all appropriate actions.
This would entail the "Loyal Opposition" in Congress joining the executive branch and its new GOP majorities on both sides of Capitol Hill in a mobilization of the American people and federal resources in a heretofore- unprecedented effort to secure our homeland.
To abandon this area now -- and to rely only on efforts against al Qaeda from a distance -- would significantly hamper our ability to keep the pressure on al Qaeda, and create an unacceptable risk of additional attacks on our homeland and our allies.
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And I think you have to look at it also within the context of the overall purpose of those recommendations, which was to enhance our ability to protect our homeland, and enhance our ability to deal with those who threaten the United States and American citizens.
Even as we stay focused on this mission, we need you to stay nimble and flexible to meet the full range of threats to our security, from plots against our homeland to nations seeking weapons of mass destruction to transnational threats such as cyber criminals and narcotraffickers.
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The Jewish people are not strangers in our ancestral homeland, the land of our forefathers.
And we will continue to work with Congress to ensure that our intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement communities have the resources they need to keep the American people safe.
That's something that we would certainly be willing to consider, " said Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, "but again, not at the expense of giving up all of our commitment to homeland security.
That's what these steps are designed to do, and we will continue to work with Congress to ensure that our intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement communities have the resources they need to keep the American people safe.
Here at home, our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement agencies have worked together with considerable success: gathering intelligence, stitching it together, and making arrests -- from Denver to Texas, from Illinois to New York -- disrupting plots and saving American lives.
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In short, we need our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement systems -- and the people in them -- to be accountable and to work as intended: collecting, sharing, integrating, analyzing, and acting on intelligence as quickly and effectively as possible to save innocent lives -- not just most of the time, but all the time.
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Some of the public servants helping us do that today are here: Our excellent Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. (Applause.) Our Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, is here -- (applause) -- a longtime police officer who also served as police chief in four different cities.
You know, I favor a withdrawal that would be completed in six months, redeployment of our troops, and to use the money to do real homeland security to protect our ports and our borders.
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