We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.