Thomas Kean Quotations

If these two bills are passed on radio spectrum and allocation of funds, the grades will quickly switch to a B or an A.

God help us if we have another attack.

We may end up holding individual agencies, people, and procedures to account. But our fundamental purpose will not be to point fingers. It's rather to answer fully the questions that so many still have.

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.

I think there's a real question in my mind and I think of several other commissioners as to whether the president's getting decent information, as to whether the president's getting the kind of thing the president needs to make the kind of decisions that the president every day has to make.

Our purpose is to find out why things happened, how they could have happened, and what we can do to prevent their ever happening again.

Unfortunately, races seem to get more negative every year,

We believe that the terrorists will strike again. So does every responsible expert that we have talked to.

We must not allow the people who were struck down to simply become statistics. The greatest service we can pay those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and those who survived the blaze, is to do all we can to assure that no one ever again experiences the kind of anguish that they endured.

We still do not have a maximum effort against the most urgent threat. The most striking thing to us is that the size of the problem still totally dwarfs the policy response.

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.

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?

We're frustrated, all of us frustrated at the lack of urgency in addressing these various problems.

We're frustrated at the lack of urgency. We shouldn't need another wake-up call. We believe that the terrorists will strike again.

Every expert with whom we spoke told us an attack of even greater magnitude is now possible and even probable. We do not have the luxury of time.

The United States government was simply not active enough in combating the terrorist threat before 9/11.

While the terrorists are learning and adapting, our government is still moving at a crawl.

They're talking about using more money for random checks. Terrorists coming through the airport may still not be spotted.

People ought to stay out of our business.

There's no question that we are not as safe as we need to be. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.

Changes in government organization are vastly important but are still only part of what we need to do.

Generally, the grades range all the way from A to F.

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.

The first people who reached the World Trade Center did not know who was in charge. Every state and locality has got to have one agency in charge.

It's very disappointing. All we're trying to do is make the public safer.

It's not a priority for the government right now.

It's not a priority for the government right now. You don't see the Congress or the president talking about public safety is number one, as we think it should be, and a lot of the things we need to do really to prevent another 9/11 just simply aren't being done by the president or by the Congress.