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Tom Ridge Quotes
«This realignment offers a sweeping gain of additional armed law enforcement officials who will be able to provide a 'surge capacity' during increased threat periods or in the event of a terrorist attack.»
Author: Tom Ridge
«We can't eliminate all risk, but we can manage it - and we can conclude you're not a terrorist.»
Author: Tom Ridge
«We have to give people something to do.»
Author: Tom Ridge
«It is very clear that their symptoms are suspicious, and their deaths are likely due to anthrax.»
Author: Tom Ridge
«[? The U.S. homeland is better protected. America has become a land scoured, probed, patrolled and fenced by a web of informers, computers, guards, spies, tape recorders, detectors, sensors, Jersey barriers, concrete planters and bomb-sniffing dogs. It may have nipped some plots in the bud and deterred others.] We look differently as a country now to the terrorists, ... We have created security measures unlike the terrorists have seen before, and we continue to upgrade them.»
Author: Tom Ridge
«The decibel level is lower,»
Author: Tom Ridge
«[He did. In focusing so intently on things people might be carrying,] I think we probably overreacted, ... Does anybody truly think you could take over an airplane with fingernail clippers, nail files, cuticle scissors? The answer is absolutely not. We need to move from looking for weapons to paying attention to people who are or could be terrorists.»
Author: Tom Ridge
«Your characterization of it as being a significantly different threat environment, based on what we historically have heard, is absolutely correct, ... So there certainly is a diminution, reduction in the amount of intelligence, and the decibel level is lower.»
Author: Tom Ridge
«As of today, we now have full nationwide connectivity to the Homeland Security Operations Center, a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week nerve center for homeland security information and incident management,»
Author: Tom Ridge
«We went from a handful [of federal air marshals in fiscal year] '01 to literally thousands in '04 and there's been a modest reduction and I think we can manage that reduction through '05,»
Author: Tom Ridge