Thomas Kean
Thomas Kean
Thomas Howard "Tom" Kean, Sr.is an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 48th Governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990. Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the 9/11 Commission, which was responsible for investigating the causes of the September 11, 2001 attacks and providing recommendations to prevent future terrorist attacks. He was appointed to this post by...
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We're frustrated, all of us frustrated at the lack of urgency in addressing these various problems.
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We shouldn't need another wake-up call. We believe that the terrorists will strike again; so does every responsible expert that we have talked to. And if they do, and these reforms that might have prevented such an attack have not been implemented, what will our excuse be?
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We still do not have a maximum effort against the most urgent threat. The most striking thing to us is that the size of the problem still totally dwarfs the policy response.
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Unfortunately, races seem to get more negative every year,
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Our purpose is to find out why things happened, how they could have happened, and what we can do to prevent their ever happening again.
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They're talking about using more money for random checks. Terrorists coming through the airport may still not be spotted.
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It is a scandal in our minds that four years after 9/11, we have not yet set aside radio spectrum to insure that police, firefighters and emergency medical technicians can communicate reliably during any kind of attack or any kind of major disaster.
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I think there's a real question in my mind and I think of several other commissioners as to whether the president's getting decent information, as to whether the president's getting the kind of thing the president needs to make the kind of decisions that the president every day has to make.
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We may end up holding individual agencies, people, and procedures to account. But our fundamental purpose will not be to point fingers. It's rather to answer fully the questions that so many still have.
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God help us if we have another attack.
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Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.
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Changes in government organization are vastly important but are still only part of what we need to do.
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Generally, the grades range all the way from A to F.
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The first people who reached the World Trade Center did not know who was in charge. Every state and locality has got to have one agency in charge.