The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

Naomi Wolf

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Victor Hugo

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Jack Kemp

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Noah Webster

The functions of an executive are to create and enforce policies rather than working out problems resulting from such policies.

Louis F. Musil

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and halfshut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

Hugh Jackman

Rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why; If I could it end it, I would. But I can't.

Stephen King

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Will Durant