Clark Kent Ervin Quotes

You need both an exit feature as well as an entry feature. Unless you have both ends, the system still isn't operational. - Clark Kent Ervin

This is what the department was supposed to be all about. Instead, it obviously raises very serious, troubling questions about whether the government would be prepared if this were a terrorist attack. It's a devastating indictment of this department's performance four years after 9/11. - Clark Kent Ervin

This is a good news story. It's a very, very good first step. - Clark Kent Ervin

There's understandable pressure to get money out quickly. But there inevitably will be waste and fraud. - Clark Kent Ervin

Open Target: Where America Is Vulnerable to Attack. - Clark Kent Ervin

Madrid was a big wake-up call to us, yet we did relatively little. It really seems to me a matter of time before it happens in our country -- in part because it's so easy to do. - Clark Kent Ervin

It does make sense to say that it's more likely, thank God, to have a natural disaster than a terrorist one. - Clark Kent Ervin

I think the FEMA budget should be dramatically increased. And I say that as a conservative who's not reflexively for more government spending. The department has always tried to do homeland security on the cheap. - Clark Kent Ervin

[If Hurricane Katrina represented a real-life rehearsal of sorts, the response suggested to many that the nation is not ready to handle a terrorist attack of similar dimensions.] This is what the department was supposed to be all about, ... Instead, it obviously raises very serious, troubling questions about whether the government would be prepared if this were a terrorist attack. It's a devastating indictment of this department's performance four years after 9/11. - Clark Kent Ervin

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