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

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

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

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

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.

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

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