Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.

The critics don't build great cities

I have flown ValuJet. ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system.

We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents."

I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.

Many trees planted around a home reduce the need for air conditioning.

This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don't lose that.

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

When I believe in something, I'm very passionate. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit.

I am fundraising gold. Democrat donors hate me so much, they hear my name and they run to their checkbooks.

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.