Al Qaeda is very media-savvy and very focused on what goes on in the global media.

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.

Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is with the people and not with the tools.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.

Stars do not pull each other down to be more visible

You fill a hungry place shaped like your darkness.

I'll love you forever, even when I can't.

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.