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

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.

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

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Time is so...fluid where I live

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.