Tom Ridge Quotes

#1. Public service announcement: In case of a terrorist attack, bottled water and duct tape are not going to do a damn thing. So do what Homeland Security Dir. Tom Ridge does: Get really drunk, and pick up a hooker.

David Letterman

#2. Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?

Craig Kilborn

#3. Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means we're being attacked by Martha Stewart.

Conan O'Brien

#4. Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge raised security alert to a code red. Apparently Howard Dean has escaped. Did you see Dean's crazed speech the other night, yelling? I see why his wife won't campaign with him. In fact, Dean has a new slogan: 'Aaghhhh.'

Jay Leno

#5. Tom Ridge now says we don't have to run out and put plastic sheets all over the house. Great, tell that to my dead parakeet.

Craig Kilborn

#6. John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president.

David Letterman

#7. I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#8. An idea on paper to a reality in large part.

Tom Ridge

#9. There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

Tom Ridge

#10. You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Tom Ridge

#11. One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture.

Tom Ridge

#12. Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#13. Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.

Tom Ridge

#14. Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric.

Tom Ridge

#15. Ohioans know who cut their taxes. Nobody else on the ballot did. Ohioans know who is responsible for job growth, and nobody else on the ballot was.

Tom Ridge

#16. I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City,

Tom Ridge

#17. Trust is a great force multiplier.

Tom Ridge

#18. Tom guided Prophet forward by his hair, and Prophet licked the head of his cock, then sucked it into his mouth up to the ridge, swirling his tongue around and down, just enough to flick the first piercing. Tom

S.E. Jakes

#19. I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago.

Tom Ridge

#20. This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

Tom Ridge

#21. While I think it's very important that Marco Rubio and Senator [Ted] Cruz have contributed as senators ... there's no doubt in my mind that being a governor is far, far better preparation for the ultimate responsibility as president of the United States.

Tom Ridge

#22. Well, I've learnt this much: it doesn't matter
what it costs, it's worth paying the price. You can't live cheap
and you can't live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you've
paid it, that's what I reckon.

John Marsden

#23. Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

Tom Ridge

#24. I think Senator Rubio is a very talented young man. But you can well imagine that I am kind of partial to governors.

Tom Ridge

#25. If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

Elaine Gill

#26. We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.

Tom Ridge

#27. Death doesn't take away the impact they made on our lives or their importance to God. To be gone from here is to be present in glory. It doesn't feel like it now, but I assure you each day will get a little easier. Each week will add more distance from the pain.

Cheryl St. John

#28. Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.

Tom Ridge

#29. Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process ...

Tom Ridge

#30. America is a country that will not be broken by fear. And instead, America is a country blessed with citizens marked by goodwill and great resolve.

Tom Ridge

#31. No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

Samuel Johnson

#32. The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks ... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list ...

Tom Ridge

#33. Very interested in any technology that can help create a safer and more secure America.

Tom Ridge

#34. It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!

Tom Ridge

#35. There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

Max Muller

#36. I think it's one thing to be part of a very important group called the Senate of the United States and cast a vote. You're one of 100. I think it says even more to be a governor, where you ultimately have that political responsibility and accountability to succeed.

Tom Ridge