Tom Ridge
Tom Ridge
Thomas Joseph "Tom" Ridgeis an American politician who served as the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security from 2001 to 2003, and the first United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005. Prior to this, Ridge was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and the 43rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 August 1945
CityMunhall, PA
CountryUnited States of America
with as much information as possible as quickly as possible.
We want visitors from abroad to continue to come to the United States, but we also want to secure our borders,
We had specific information that needed to be acted upon relative to the Air France flights.
For every level of threat there will be a level of preparedness, ... It is a system that is equal to the threat.
It's the responsibility of our staff to plan and prepare this being almost a permanent part of our environment in the future,
Effective firefighters in every community are critical to America's homeland security, ... We want to help the fire service to move quickly to develop and acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and equipment to respond to all emergencies, large and small.
It may take a little longer, it may, ... But again, I think knowing the generosity of Americans ... there will be enough people that want to memorialize that sacrifice and their courage.
It was serious enough from our perspective ... a credible enough theory that at least we ought to tell folks we are mindful of it and that you ought to be mindful of it out there as well,
It was an attack against us all, because it sought in its violence to divide us by the color of our skin and the nations of our ancestors.
They are insidious, ... a vast paradox of personalities and groups, some spontaneous, some very methodical, yet they are all intent on doing us harm.
The airlines and aviation today are far better prepared,
It needs to be discussed, and we will continue to discuss it,
It's a national effort grounded in the knowledge that states and local agencies play the primary role in emergency response.
What he needs to understand is that the turnaround in Pennsylvania has everything to do with the people in Pennsylvania, and not the people on Pennsylvania Avenue,