Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

...because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were.

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.