[• The U.S. homeland is better protected. America has become a land scoured, probed, patrolled and fenced by a web of informers, computers, guards, spies, tape recorders, detectors, sensors, Jersey barriers, concrete planters and bomb-sniffing dogs. It may have nipped some plots in the bud and deterred others.] We look differently as a country now to the terrorists, ... We have created security measures unlike the terrorists have seen before, and we continue to upgrade them. |
[Asked last Sunday whether the Capitol was the intended target on CNN's] Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer ... There was some dispute as to whether it was the White House or U.S. Capitol. And I don't think we'll ever know. |
[Following up on the alert Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Monday afternoon, warning of a] credible ... continue to live your lives. |
[He did. In focusing so intently on things people might be carrying,] I think we probably overreacted, ... Does anybody truly think you could take over an airplane with fingernail clippers, nail files, cuticle scissors? The answer is absolutely not. We need to move from looking for weapons to paying attention to people who are or could be terrorists. |
[In response to a question about the United States' current] code orange ... as long as the military activity in Iraq requires us to. |
a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing. |
alarming in both the amount and specificity. |
All other systems failed, so they decided to use the Internet to create their own call centers. It shows the application of what you do to help our first responders. |
America understands and hopefully appreciates, ... when there is that kind of information, we share it no matter how incomplete it may be. |
among the safest in the world. |
An emergency is not the time to plan; it's the time to react, so be informed, ... The actions you would take in a conventional attack may be counterproductive if you took them in response to a different kind of attack. |
an idea on paper to a reality in large part. |
And all 50 states, through our Homeland Security Information Network, are connected to it. This is a goal we've reached five months ahead of schedule. |
And they are constantly evaluating procedures, both in the United States and elsewhere, to find gaps in our security posture that could be exploited. |
Anybody that's spent any time combating terrorists ... will tell you that being old doesn't necessarily mean being irrelevant, ... Good intelligence can be appropriate, no matter how old it is. |