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"We need to have a world that is banded with security envelopes. Meaning, secure environments through which people and cargo can move rapidly, efficiently, and safely without sacrificing security. And in that kind of a world, it would be possible, with the proper security vetting, with the proper technology, with the proper travel documents, with the proper tracking of cargo, to move relatively freely from point to point all across the globe, with the understanding that those within the security envelope, we have a high confidence and trust about, so that they don't have to be stopped at every point mechanically and revetted and rechecked, and those outside the envelope would be those on which we could focus our resources in terms of the kind of in-depth analysis and the kind of in-depth vetting that is necessary to make sure bad people can't come in to do bad things.

So that is ultimately the vision of where we go, and I think it's one which would happily not require a sacrifice of liberty or privacy in order to promote security, it's one that would maximize all of these values, which is of course again what our ultimate goal is, is to preserve our lives but also to foster our way of life.

And let me talk specifically about three areas in which I think we can start to concretely move forward, as we try to develop this worldwide security envelope. First of all, the issue of screening. We have to have a systematic approach to screening that meshes with the approach taken by our overseas allies, that takes advantage of modern technology, and that gives us a real sense of confidence that we are screening out bad people
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We need technology for screening cargo, we can use it for screening people as well."