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

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.

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

I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.

Free your mind and be in flow of life's ups and downs. Be accepting of wherever you are on your journey

You're my daughter. I don't care about the factions.

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.

We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.

Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs

Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.