Tom Ridge Men Quotations

If America has the opportunity to make a strategic investment that not only enhances security but makes us a better, safer, stronger, or healthier country, then we need to do that. If you secure every home town, then the homeland is secure.

requesting some $36.2 billion clearly communicates this administration's commitment to investing in our Homeland Security.

I think Senator Rubio is a very talented young man. But you can well imagine that I am kind of partial to governors.

Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric.

The bottom line is that homeland security is not about one department, one level of government or one organization, ... It is a national call to action, a philosophy of shared responsibility, shared accountability, and shared leadership.

While your government is doing everything it can to prevent an attack, citizens also should know what to do, ... Because in the end, being prepared, knowing what to do, can and will save lives.

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.

variety of checks normally done with government employment.

Today the United States government raised the national threat level.

Biometrics not only accurately identifies and cross-checks travelers and potential terrorists before they enter our countries, but they also provide increased travel document security and important personal identity protections.

We don't want to broadcast to everybody where we're going to be doing this, but those areas and elements within the private sector, they have already been contacted and they understand that for the time being we want to maintain a similar level of security,

Your characterization of it as being a significantly different threat environment, based on what we historically have heard, is absolutely correct, ... So there certainly is a diminution, reduction in the amount of intelligence, and the decibel level is lower.

if the Brazilian government thinks it's in their interests (to fingerprint and photograph Americans), so be it.

I'm honored to join the extraordinary team you've assembled to lead America. The size and scope of this challenge are immense ... an extraordinary mission. But we will carry it out.

When our incident management team and our coordination center was notified (of the explosion), within in a very short period of time ... we knew what was going on at the local (and) state level, ... We engaged immediately in conversations with the Coast Guard, the EPA, the Health and Human Services.

It's the responsibility of our staff to plan and prepare this being almost a permanent part of our environment in the future,

Our goal is to deter any potential attack with multiple layers of security and, based on what I have seen and heard, I can tell you that the security plans and arrangements and commitment of federal, state and local officials is very, very strong,

We do recommend that individuals and families in the days ahead take some time to prepare for emergency,

We have more protective measures in place at yellow today than we did six months or a year ago, ... And there will be more put in place on a day-to-day basis every single day, for as long as the department exists.