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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People ought to stay out of our business.
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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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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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It's very disappointing. All we're trying to do is make the public safer.
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It was obvious nobody knew who was in charge. There was no unified command structure ... the mayor is saying one thing, the governor says another. The president is in the state, and the governor learns about it on TV.
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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.
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It's not a priority for the government right now. You don't see the Congress or the president talking about public safety is number one, as we think it should be, and a lot of the things we need to do really to prevent another 9/11 just simply aren't being done by the president or by the Congress.
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It's not a priority for the government right now.
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We must not allow the people who were struck down to simply become statistics. The greatest service we can pay those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and those who survived the blaze, is to do all we can to assure that no one ever again experiences the kind of anguish that they endured.
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God help us if we have another attack.
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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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We believe that the terrorists will strike again. So does every responsible expert that we have talked to.