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.

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.

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

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.

The only difference between where you are and where you want to be is the number of steps you haven't taken yet.

Be assured, a God who spoke the universe into existence would not need grains of dust to fight holy wars for him.

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side.

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.

Boredom is a disease, too.