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
By and large, I think you're going to see any country that hosts Olympics -- it's a wide international stage -- to go to those lengths to provide maximum security,
George wants to win but he won't divide us to do it,
For the first time ever, this international effort will establish one world standard for ship and port security,
It's pretty clear that we're just going to be ready.
The airlines and aviation today are far better prepared,
It needs to be discussed, and we will continue to discuss it,
All other systems failed, so they decided to use the Internet to create their own call centers. It shows the application of what you do to help our first responders.
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's the responsibility of our staff to plan and prepare this being almost a permanent part of our environment in the future,
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.
The intelligence that we've received over the past several weeks is ... a series of general non-specific threats against the United States.
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 ultimate protection of public safety is to cancel the flight.
These are pieces of information that we could trace comfortably to sources we deem to be credible.