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.

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.

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

Nothing is impossible for him who believes.

I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.

I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

...I want to grab her collarbones as if they were handlebars.

Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.

You don't read scripture, scripture reads you.

I don't send messages, I'm not a fax machine

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.