28 Quotes by Thomas Kean

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.

Unfortunately, races seem to get more negative every year,

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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