It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.

It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.

You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children." -Diana

It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.

Write as if you are dying.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Now, the band that inspired that great saying, "Stop The Music!!"

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.