Well, first, let me thank
each and every one of you for your incredible service to your agency,
to the Department of Homeland Security and to the nation.
You know, I know the last 18 months in particular has been unusually
difficult for all of you and for all of your families.
But I want to thank you personally, because you have allowed the rest of us
to live our lives, to live our lives in the way that we choose
to be able to worship, where we choose
to be able to build lives and families and take care of our kids
and do the sort of things that we as Americans always hope to do.
It is because you have done your job and done it exceedingly well.
You know, to paraphrase Winston Churchill,
"never have so many owed so much to so few."
So on behalf of one of these, you know, folks that
has had the opportunity to live the life that you have been protecting.
I want to thank you.
Thank each and every one of you for your service. Thanks.