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
requesting some $36.2 billion clearly communicates this administration's commitment to investing in our Homeland Security.
It's a national effort grounded in the knowledge that states and local agencies play the primary role in emergency response.
Anybody that's spent any time combating terrorists ... will tell you that being old doesn't necessarily mean being irrelevant, ... Good intelligence can be appropriate, no matter how old it is.
Bush is willing to tackle the tough issues -- the ones some leaders refuse to touch, ... Issues such as real education reform, national security and defense, preserving Social Security and restoring America's values to government.
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.
might require an added level of protection, an added layer of safety.
As the world community combats terrorism ... you're going to see more and more countries going to a form of biometric identification to confirm identities,
It is as reliable a source, group of sources that we've ever seen before.
I can't imagine a better place to begin the renewal of America's purpose than the cradle of American democracy,
This is the right move at the right time for the right reasons,
In spite of everything we have done, we are only at the beginning of what will be a long struggle to protect this country from terrorism,
You ought to consider it potentially a terrorist event because it looked like he was equipped to do massive harm and damage to people, ... Unfortunately, there's some very troubled people within our own country and we've seen they can act out and we have to be prepared and ready for them as well.
Maybe that's very much the reason that you'd be worried about it, because you hadn't seen it before,
Protecting this information is critically important. Shut them down and you shut down America as we know it,