It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Despite 4, 000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.

Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they too, fade away.

It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.

I'm not overly analytical, and I don't set out to make something particularly.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.