Since becoming Secretary, I have set five major goals to focus our Department's efforts on a core set of objectives. These goals are as follows: (1) keeping dangerous people from entering our country; (2) keeping dangerous cargo out of our country; (3) protecting critical infrastructure; (4) boosting emergency preparedness and response; and (5) strengthening DHS integration and management. Because the focus of this hearing is threats to our homeland, my testimony will highlight only the first three goals: preventing dangerous people and dangerous cargo from entering our country, and protecting critical infrastructure. I will also discuss our efforts to share information and intelligence necessary to achieve these goals. (DHS, Testimony of Secretary Chertoff Before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security [Hearing on] Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland: Six Years After 9/11).: September 10, 2007)