The terrorists are smart because they will go where the security is the weakest. We have no greater fear then a terrorist who is inside the United States with a nuclear weapon ... [so] why isn't the President talking about securing nuclear materials? |
The United States government was simply not active enough in combating the terrorist threat before 9/11. |
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. |
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. |
They're talking about using more money for random checks. Terrorists coming through the airport may still not be spotted. |
We are safer but we are not yet safe. Four years after 9/11, we are not as safe as we could be. And that is unacceptable. While the terrorists are learning and adapting, our government is still moving at a crawl. |
We are safer, but we are not yet safe. That's simply not acceptable. |
We believe that the terrorists will strike again. So does every responsible expert that we have talked to. |
We felt it was absolutely vital. We had certainly hoped it would have been up and running a long time ago. |
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. |
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 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 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're frustrated at the lack of urgency. We shouldn't need another wake-up call. We believe that the terrorists will strike again. |
We're frustrated, all of us — frustrated at the lack of urgency in addressing these various problems. |