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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It's very disappointing. All we're trying to do is make the public safer.
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People ought to stay out of our business.
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Generally, the grades range all the way from A to F.
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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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It's not a priority for the government right now.
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If these two bills are passed on radio spectrum and allocation of funds, the grades will quickly switch to a B or an A.
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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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Unfortunately, races seem to get more negative every year,
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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're frustrated, all of us frustrated at the lack of urgency in addressing these various problems.
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We're frustrated at the lack of urgency. We shouldn't need another wake-up call. We believe that the terrorists will strike again.
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I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and give back. That's why I was a volunteer firefighter, that's why I worked in a homeless shelter. I always knew I'd give back, elective office or not.
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There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven't been done. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.