We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.

Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is with the people and not with the tools.

Al Qaeda is very media-savvy and very focused on what goes on in the global media.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

Every flight begins with a fall.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

I was born in New York.

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.