Tom Ridge Quotes
We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
Ridge, Tom, and Larry Bloom. The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege...And How We Can Be Safe Again. Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.
See {587703} for a similar statement by a Supreme Court Justice.
McCain had lost the 2008 Presidential Race and was not going to run again. At this time he was trying to counterbalance the views of some of his party’s new presidential nomination candidates—all men—who wanted to reverse a woman’s Constitutional right to abortion and favored policies that would diminish women’s access to affordable birth control. Some people observed that his logic applied equally well to abortion, but he was at that time not in favor of abortion on demand but did support the right of a woman to choose an abortion in cases of rape, incest or medical conditions where childbirth would endanger the life of the mother.
While this was a strong central political principle for Reagan, a substantial part of his political party strongly advocated the against the government interjecting itself into people’s lives.
Thomas Joseph Ridge is an American politician and author who served as the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security from 2001 to 2003, and the first United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005. Prior to this, Ridge was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and the 43rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party.
