The homeland is secure when the hometown is secure. |
The intelligence that we've received over the past several weeks is ... a series of general non-specific threats against the United States. |
The passengers and crew are an emblem of America's great glory: freedom and patriotism demonstrated at its highest regard, ... Here upon this field of honor, lives were saved and heroes were made. |
The president has given me an extraordinary opportunity to serve my country in this incredible period since September 11th, 2001. |
The quality of this intelligence, based on multiple reporting streams in multiple locations, is rarely seen and is alarming in both the amount and specificity of the information, |
The system is not perfect here. |
The tapes are new, the threat is not, |
The task is enormous, |
The threat of terrorism forces us to make a choice. We can be afraid, or we can be ready, ... Ready Campaign. |
The threats are threats we heard before, |
the ultimate protection of public safety is to cancel the flight. |
There are a lot of us who think that some of the information we share with the public probably should be restricted in some fashion, ... We may have to take a look at these kinds of issues from a different perspective because of the tragedy of September 11. |
There is a continuous stream of reporting, literally from the last two years, that indicates [terrorists'] preference or desire to use aircraft as a means of attack, ... American Morning. |
there was specific information regarding those flights. |
There was X number of dollars, so we have to set priorities and we had to move people and money around. |