Bernard Kerik

Bernard Kerik (far right) with Thomas Von Essen, Rudy Giuliani, and Richard Sheirer

Bernard Kerik, CBE (born September 4, 1955, in Newark, New Jersey) is an American law-enforcement officer. Kerik was Police Commissioner of the City of New York from 2000 to 2001. In December 2004, George W. Bush nominated Kerik as Secretary of Homeland Security.

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• Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
  • Newsday, October 20, 2003

• If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen … and I don't want to see another Sept. 11.
  • New York Daily News, April 22, 2004