Janet Napolitano quote: "Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence."

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children c...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe an...
JANET NAPOLITANO

The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we...
JANET NAPOLITANO

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the pu...
JANET NAPOLITANO

You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes o...
JANET NAPOLITANO

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperat...
JANET NAPOLITANO

What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

She said basically, 'Thank you for not leaving me. Thank you for not rushing the tower. They would h...
JANET NAPOLITANO

We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Sue Clark-Johnson has been a wonderful addition to Arizona and to Phoenix. I wish her the very best ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

We must prepare young people for a brain-centered economy whose one constant is rapid change. The pr...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transporta...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Both federal governments let us down - there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency,
JANET NAPOLITANO

We are moving forward quickly and aggressively to fashion a comprehensive plan with real solutions,
JANET NAPOLITANO

The rule of law has become victim, and the people who are experiencing it the most are those communi...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terroris...
JANET NAPOLITANO

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.
JANET NAPOLITANO

They have a great facility there, well prepared, and we'll keep dividing between Phoenix and Tucson ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

We have an obligation to enforce the border, ... it's important for the people of this state to unde...
JANET NAPOLITANO

We have established working groups with ardent goals and short deadlines to make recommendations for...
JANET NAPOLITANO

to combat the growing devastation caused by the crimes associated with illegal immigration.
JANET NAPOLITANO

I think I had pretty clearly telegraphed that I was going to be proclaiming (approval of all ballot ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

As we move deeper into the 21st Century, the need for a quality public school system will become mor...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for ste...
GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

It's a rough-and-tumble, swaggering electorate who like to see the guilty punished to the max, ... I...
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

The government would have to give up the ghost on seeking the death penalty, the sentence being life...
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

There is very little other justification for him to go before the grand jury now, unless he feels th...
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

advocate.
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

has criticized the exclusionary rule . . . and [as an appellate judge] has favored police powers ove...
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

it occurs to me that his own interests were probably in protecting us from terrorism and this thing ...
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

I don't know enough about this.
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

There are federal judges who have ruled elsewhere in the U.S. the exact opposite of the way this fed...
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

innuendos' that Rehnquist was insensitive to African Americans. None of that was manifested in any o...
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

No. He's my friend, I don't think he should be, but somebody will be.
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.
GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance...
GRACE NAPOLITANO

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with ...
GRACE NAPOLITANO

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on inves...
GRACE NAPOLITANO

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts...
GRACE NAPOLITANO

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.
GRACE NAPOLITANO

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.
GRACE NAPOLITANO

'innuendos' that Rehnquist was insensitive to African Americans. None of that was manifested in any ...
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only ...
GRACE NAPOLITANO

This is classic treason — waging war in the United States. Ohio is Middle America ... it's just no...
ANDREW NAPOLITANO

Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into p...
GRACE NAPOLITANO

If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a ...
GRACE NAPOLITANO

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would defin...
GRACE NAPOLITANO

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally o...
GRACE NAPOLITANO

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which...
GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

We use solar at our home and business, and we probably save about 60% on our utility bills. Once you...
DONNA NAPOLITANO

Art is a form of communication, just like reading and writing.
DONNA NAPOLITANO

Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiv...
GRACE NAPOLITANO

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.
GRACE NAPOLITANO

No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public fina...
GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu...
JANET JACKSON

One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the probl...
JANET RENO

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
JANET FITCH

We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and...
JANET JACKSON

Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because mon...
JANET YELLEN

Financial market participants appear to recognize the FOMC's data-dependent approach because inc...
JANET YELLEN

there is very little 'of course' when it comes to custom
JANET KAGAN

You have no tail!" said Brightspot. her own whipped suddenly forward; she stared, first at it, then ...
JANET KAGAN

Kagan's law of first contact,'You'll surprise you more than they will.
JANET KAGAN

Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and ...
JANET YELLEN

The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff's Office in the Identificatio...
JANET RENO

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it take...
JANET FLANNER

Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the wome...
JANET BEGBIE

By putting downward pressure on interest rates, the Fed is trying to make financial conditions more ...
JANET YELLEN

I'm particularly fond of the Mulholland Fountain, at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard, wh...
JANET FITCH

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told an...
JANET JACKSON

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it...
JANET FRAME

I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.
JANET SORENSEN

My father, that silhouette, a form comprised of all I did not
know, a shape filled with rain. "...
JANET FITCH

Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. ...
JANET FITCH

 Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul roo...
JANET FITCH

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on...
JANET FITCH

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom ...
JANET FITCH

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
JANET MALCOLM

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that ...
JANET MALCOLM

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fear...
JANET MALCOLM

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He...
JANET JACKSON

What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for ot...
JANET FITCH

I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I can...
JANET MINOR

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
JANET GUTHRIE

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have t...
JANET GUTHRIE

It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little momen...
JANET GUTHRIE

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing would...
JANET FITCH

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruct...
JANET FRAME

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room t...
JANET FITCH

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
JANET FITCH

My hatred gives me strength.
JANET FITCH

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the l...
JANET FRAME

This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
JANET FITCH

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qu...
JANET MALCOLM

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
JANET LONG

Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the ag...
JANET RENO

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break fre...
JANET JACKSON

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require go...
JANET YELLEN

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
JANET ECHELMAN

American workers have faced serious difficulties in the labor market since the first oil shock in 19...
JANET YELLEN

The financial crisis and the Great Recession demonstrated, in a dramatic and unmistakable manner, ho...
JANET YELLEN

I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms...
JANET RENO

The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect...
JANET YELLEN

After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 ...
JANET YELLEN

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
JANET JACKSON

Transparency concerning the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy is desirable because be...
JANET YELLEN

Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something,...
JANET YELLEN

Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to g...
JANET RENO

I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes...
JANET RENO

Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street.
JANET YELLEN

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to wor...
JANET JACKSON

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.
JANET RENO

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence i...
JANET RENO

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much e...
JANET SUZMAN

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
JANET FITCH

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living...
JANET SUZMAN

Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good abo...
JANET RENO

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. Y...
JANET FITCH

My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet anoth...
JANET FITCH

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your...
JANET JACKSON

I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat l...
JANET FITCH

My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it wo...
JANET FITCH

Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should ...
JANET EVANOVICH

add one
make dumb
add two
make poo
JANET HUTCH

I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That ...
JANET FITCH

I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's t...
JANET JACKSON

Dad's on a fishing boat in front of Carter's estate. If we get into trouble, all I have to do is pre...
JANET EVANOVICH

Policies to strengthen education and training, to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and to ...
JANET YELLEN

If I could just get Broom to cooperate, we could fly, Glo said. Then we wouldn't have to worry about...
JANET EVANOVICH

I collected child support in Dade County, and they wrote a rap song about me, so the kids knew about...
JANET RENO

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.
JANET YELLEN

I'm a scuba diver but not certified.
JANET RENO

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us ch...
JANET YELLEN

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lie...
JANET FITCH

The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if t...
JANET FITCH

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.
JANET FRAME

Audit the Fed is a bill that would politicize monetary policy, would bring short-term political pres...
JANET YELLEN

I want to be completely clear that I strongly oppose 'Audit the Fed.'
JANET YELLEN

I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I di...
JANET RENO

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of...
JANET FITCH

Though the Attorney General of the United States carries many responsibilities and undertakes many t...
JANET RENO

While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the rig...
JANET RENO

Many financial innovations such as the increased availability of low-cost mutual funds have improved...
JANET YELLEN

Monetary policy ultimately must be conducted in a pragmatic manner that relies not on any particular...
JANET YELLEN

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware ...
JANET FITCH

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Divisi...
JANET YELLEN

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd ...
JANET JACKSON

My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights o...
JANET RENO

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a...
JANET SUZMAN

Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I fin...
JANET ECHELMAN

What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if t...
JANET RENO

Like 'Metro' and 'Motor,' 'Troublemaker' is written in first person. The onl...
JANET EVANOVICH

This is a beautiful country. Each of us has a favorite river, a mountain, just a patch of sky for so...
JANET RENO

Bitch."
"Slut."
"Whore."
"Cunt."
I kicked Joyce in the shin. I draw the line at ...
JANET EVANOVICH

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with hi...
JANET FITCH

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
JANET FITCH

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guita...
JANET FITCH

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have b...
JANET JACKSON

Two Trees
A portion of your soul has been
entwined with mine
A gentle kind of togethe...
JANET MILES

I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Ta...
JANET FITCH

The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums...
JANET WEISS

We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it&#...
JANET RENO

Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first tho...
JANET EVANOVICH

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crime...
JANET RENO

A wide range of possible fiscal policy tools and approaches could enhance the cyclical stability of ...
JANET YELLEN

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to in...
JANET FITCH

For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery wh...
JANET FITCH

He just wanted to stand close to her, touch her hair that was white as glacier milk...
JANET FITCH

You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will trem...
JANET FITCH

When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of ...
JANET MCTEER

It certainly would be helpful going forward for deficit reduction efforts to focus on the medium ter...
JANET YELLEN

Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there ...
JANET YELLEN

It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they ...
JANET MCTEER

Say yes to your Universe.
JANET ZUCKERMAN

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
JANET RENO

I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've...
JANET MINOR

"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own dest...
JANET FRAME

I am extremely proud of the way our staff handled the incident but I am upset it happened. Victim su...
JANET ANDERSON

Without the Milosevic trial the court has lost the possibility of finding a conclusion to the questi...
JANET ANDERSON

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.
JANET ANDERSON

The crucial thing for genocide is that you have to show a special kind of intent to implement genoci...
JANET ANDERSON

The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now won...
JANET ALLEN

That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here.
JANET ALLEN

I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can r...
JANET ALLEN

Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day.
JANET ALLEN

Sam lit up every room she was in.
JANET ALLEN

The issues seem to be the changing environment that we live in. There's much more access to in-home ...
JANET ALLEN

This has been very stressful for the people involved, particularly for class representatives who had...
JANET ABARAY

They didn't want to include that provision in the original document because they were afraid it woul...
JANET ABARAY

I've been contacted by some (ticket holders).
JANET ABARAY

These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already.
JANET ABARAY

If we were to raise interest rates too steeply, and we were to trigger a downturn or contribute to a...
JANET YELLEN

Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

Janet Napolitano

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