The United States And Arizona

You Show Me A 50-foot Wall And I'll Show You A 51-foot Ladder.

One Of The Most Striking Elements Of Today's Threat Picture Is That Plots To Attack America Increasingly Involve American Residents And Citizens.

You Can't Imagine A World, Quite Frankly, Without A Safe And Secure Aviation System. And So Our Job Is To Really Focus On That, And What We Need To Do To Keep It Safe And Secure.

Now, A Lot Of What We Are Doing Right Now, Quite Frankly, Is Because Of What Happened On Christmas. Many Of The Things Were Kind Of In The Works. We Were Already Planning, For Example, The Purchase And Deployment Of Advanced Imaging Technology. You Call Them Body Scanners. We Call Them Aits (advanced Imaging Technologies).

We Are On The Lookout For Criminal And Terrorist Activity But We Do Not Nor Will We Ever Monitor Ideology Or Political Beliefs. We Take Seriously Our Responsibility To Protect Civil Rights And Liberties Of The American People, Including Subjecting Our Activities To Rigorous Oversight From Numerous Internal And External Sources.