All 10 of us have decided to do everything we can, whether it's testimony or lobbying or speaking or whatever's necessary, to let the American people know about these recommendations - know how important they are, our belief that they can save lives. |
Changes in government organization are vastly important but are still only part of what we need to do. |
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. |
From our point of view, we don't want foreigners controlling our ports. From their point of view, this is a legitimate company that had a legitimate bid and won, and here are all these congressmen saying all these things about not wanting this company. It looks to them like its anti-Arab. |
Generally, the grades range all the way from A to F. |
God help us if we have another attack. |
Had the studies of dangers to infrastructure been done, it's hard to believe that New Orleans wouldn't have been at the top. |
Hurricane Katrina pointed out continuing serious flaws in our emergency preparedness and response. And this was frustrating to us. |
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. |
I think this deal is going to be killed. The question is how much damage is this going to do to us before it's killed. |
If Congress does not act, people will die -- I cannot put it more simply than that. |
If these two bills are passed on radio spectrum and allocation of funds, the grades will quickly switch to a B or an A. |
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. |
It is a scandal in our minds. |
It scares me a bit that we dismantled the CIA to the point that it now takes five years to rebuild it. |