10 Quotes & Sayings By Janet Napolitano

Janet Napolitano is the first female, the first Hispanic, and the first U.S. Senate-confirmed Latina to hold a cabinet-level position in a president's administration. While serving as President Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security, Napolitano established a new strategic focus on cybersecurity and led efforts to improve border security and national preparedness for all hazards. She was born in Santa Rosa, California, on March 28, 1956 Read more

Her father was from Mexico and her mother from Mexico City. Napolitano earned a bachelor's degree in public administration from Sonoma State University in 1978 and a master's degree in public policy from Claremont Graduate University in 1983. In 1986, she began working at the San Francisco District Attorney's Office as a deputy district attorney.

After several years working in private practice at the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson, she became a professor at George Washington University Law School where she taught administrative law and regulatory policy. When she left GWU Law School in 2001 to serve as Arizona's top federal prosecutor, she was named by "The National Law Journal" as one of the top ten best judges in America under forty years old. In 2003, she ran for Arizona's Attorney General but lost to Terry Goddard by more than 20 points.

In 2004, she was elected Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction by an overwhelming margin and served until 2009 when she took office as Secretary of Homeland Security. Napolitano is married to Peter Lewis and has two children: Michael and Jennifer. She resides in Washington D.C., with her husband and two children

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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). Janet Napolitano
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And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy. Janet Napolitano
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Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day. Janet Napolitano
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As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures. Janet Napolitano
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All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images. Janet Napolitano
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If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. Janet Napolitano
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Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years. Janet Napolitano
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Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. Janet Napolitano
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Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood. Janet Napolitano