A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.
You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.
Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.
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