It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.

And if you do all you can, that's all you can ever do.

Angels do walk among us. Sometimes the only thing we may not see are the wings resting upon their backs.

Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.

There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those who regard humans as creatures in the biological world.

That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.

In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don't wanna listen.

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.