Tom Allen

Personal Profile

• Birth Name:

  Thomas H. Allen

• Date of Birth:

  April 16, 1945

• Zodiac Sign:

  Aries

• Place of Birth:

  Portland, ME

• Sex:

  Male

• Nationality:

  American

• Education:

   Deering High School

   BA, Bowdoin College

  Wadham College, Oxford University

Family

• Father:

  Charles

• Mother:

  Genevieve

• Spouse:

  Diana Bell

Career

• Profession:

  Politician

Quotes

• “There is no more immoral set of priorities.”
• “No matter how you divide them up, there are only about a dozen teams that are a lot bigger than everybody else. So unless you take those 12 to 15 teams and let them just play, you're going to have a gap somewhere.”
• “Obviously, we have our hands full. They've got a great offense, and we're working our tails off to try to slow them down.”
• “He's just a tough kid, who is very football-smart. He's not the biggest, not the strongest and not the fastest. He reads the blocks well and just makes plays.”
• “We had our best two practices of the year on Monday and Tuesday. I think the kids hopefully understand the sense or urgency we have now. We just (have) to get better every day.”
• “When she moved out to go be with Rick, she told me I'd like him, that he was pro-choice and a humanist. But I don't think there's a humanist bone in that man's body.”
• “Hurricane Katrina was a colossal natural disaster compounded by an unprecedented breakdown in the government response. Above all, it shows what happens when government is run by people who denigrate the role of government in our lives.”
• “I would like to see our commercial fees competitive with the cities’. As a matter of fact, I would like to see a little bit of an incentive.”
• “I find hard to believe we are having this hearing today to consider $10 billion in cuts to Medicaid, ... Survivors of Hurricane Katrina are now scattered across the country and in need of significantly more Medicaid resources than they did before.”
• “The universally praised independent, bipartisan commission established in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks provides an ideal model for how such an investigation should be undertaken, ... That panel was created after the families of 9/11 victims concluded that the Republican-led Congress could not adequately investigate the Bush Administration. Since the political reality has not changed, we owe it to the victims of Katrina to again create an independent Commission free of political b