Tom Ridge Threat Quotations

For every level of threat there will be a level of preparedness, ... It is a system that is equal to the threat.

In the meantime, as on the other occasions when the national threat level has been increased, we encourage members of the public to continue their daily work, family and leisure activities with a heightened awareness,

Today the United States government raised the national threat level.

The tapes are new, the threat is not,

We are confident they are taking this threat seriously,

compared to previous threat reporting, these intelligence reports have provided a level of detail that is very specific.

We'll want them to pull in all that information and sort it out between rumor and suspicion and fact and speculation and misinformation and do an assessment, do an analysis and then communicate it -- if it's a real threat -- communicate that to state and local governments,

The intelligence that we've received over the past several weeks is ... a series of general non-specific threats against the United States.

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.

We'll be ready to answer every danger and every enemy that threatens the American people.

We could go back over the past two years and pick out threat reports of pretty much the same substance,