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" And so border security is not simply preventing people from getting in, but very often preventing somebody from leaving for the wrong reasons. "
Jeh Johnson
Border
Leaving
People
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" It's better for candidates to suggest ideas that are responsible, not ones that are incapable of being executed. People are influenced by what their leaders tell them. And bringing the level of rhetoric down brings the temperature down. "
Jeh Johnson
Down
Rhetoric
People
" ISIL, AQ, now have the ability to literally reach into our homeland through social media, through the Internet, to recruit and inspire. It makes for a more complicated homeland security environment. And so it requires a whole of government approach, not just military and law enforcement, homeland security, aviation security, and the like. "
Jeh Johnson
Media
Social Media
Government
" Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims. So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a - a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them - to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly. "
Jeh Johnson
Group
Islam
Dignity
" There is a terrorist threat to this country that remains, and I believe that counter-terrorism needs to be the cornerstone of our mission, our vast mission... and aviation security is something that we still have a fair amount of concerns about. "
Jeh Johnson
Believe
Security
Mission
" Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts. "
Jeh Johnson
World
Work
Religion
" Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.' "
Jeh Johnson
Principles
War
Law
" Immigration is the most difficult issue I've ever dealt with, and I've dealt with some tough issues: drones, gays in the military, WikiLeaks, Guantanamo. But immigration is hardest because there are so few people willing to talk and build consensus. Everybody's firmly made up their mind. It's a polarized issue. "
Jeh Johnson
Immigration
Build
Tough
" How could somebody be comfortable with authorizing legally the use of lethal force? My view is if you become comfortable with it, then you should get out of the job. "
Jeh Johnson
View
Out
Job
" The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union. "
Jeh Johnson
American
Long
Story
" The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody got interdicted at the border, somebody got interdicted before they could get on an airplane, somebody was arrested providing material support to terrorism. Homeland Security means very often something you never hear about. "
Jeh Johnson
Support
You
Good
" What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left. "
Jeh Johnson
College
King
School
" No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country. "
Jeh Johnson
Enough
Long
Poverty
" We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security. "
Jeh Johnson
Face
Gun
Security
" War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children. "
Jeh Johnson
Parents
Natural
War
" Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk. "
Jeh Johnson
Character
Faith
People
" There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else. "
Jeh Johnson
Fear
American
Government
" In my view, targeted lethal force is at its least controversial when it is on its strongest, most traditional legal foundation. The essential mission of the U.S. military is to capture or kill an enemy. Armies have been doing this for thousands of years. As part of a congressionally authorized armed conflict, the foundation is even stronger. "
Jeh Johnson
Foundation
View
Doing
" It is almost always the case that when someone self-radicalizes, someone close to them sees the sign, which is why we continue to encourage public awareness, public vigilance. "
Jeh Johnson
Always
Why
Someone
" History will record not only the transformational changes President Obama brought about, but also that in 2008, he was elected president with 69 million votes - the largest popular vote for any one person in the history of this country, based on a campaign of hope and inspiration. "
Jeh Johnson
Vote
Hope
History
" Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice. "
Jeh Johnson
Fear
Office
Government
" We continually evaluate the world situation, and we not infrequently make changes to aviation security. We either step it up or we feel sometimes we're in a position to dial it back, and so this is something that happens periodically, and people should not overreact to it or over-speculate about what's going on. "
Jeh Johnson
Security
Step
World
" Rhetoric that vilifies American Muslims is counter to our efforts. It's a setback to our Homeland Security efforts. "
Jeh Johnson
Homeland
Security
Rhetoric