I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound.

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.

The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by mother nature.

In the military as in any organization giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

When I was nine years old I use to copy - not trace - the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends.

The nature of life is to grow.

The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration.

This bill, this badly named ENLIST Act, would put out the advertisement that says, 'Sneak into America. Sneak into the military, and that's going to be the most expeditious path to American citizenship and the whole smorgasbord of benefits that come from American citizenship.'

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.

In my personal life, I have always been bold, from the clothes I wear to how I talk. For me, boldness does not necessarily mean stripping. I think people have wrong notion about boldness. For me, bold is being different.