[But the insurers are not betting everything on one piece of legislation. If they can get the focus right, they figure, good things will follow.] The main priority, ... is to sensitize the nation and the nation's leaders to the crisis in long-term savings. This is the long-term savings debate being joined. |
[Most of the destruction was in Oklahoma, where some communities] simply don't exist, ... It looks like a huge battle has taken place. |
[While the new passports are a great step,] unfortunately, the sophistication level is not as high as it should be, ... The possibility of people coming in from the 27 [VWP] countries — Spain, Germany, France, the U.K. — obviously countries where there are radical Islamists, is very real and worrisome. |
a terrible disappointment to the family members. |
gregarious, decent, honorable, likable. |
I am institutionally and intestinally against huge blocks of inherited wealth. I don't think we need a Viscount of Enron or the Duke of Microsoft. |
I haven't lost my faith in the bureau, ... I think the FBI ... is the best law enforcement organization in the world. It's a big family. There are a lot of people. Sometimes systems break down. In this case, it looks like a system malfunctioned. That needs to be addressed. |
I think it is very important, |
I think there are a number of bishops -- and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category -- who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart. |
It appeared to be just one of those awful accidents -- terrible that it occurred on Memorial Day (weekend). |
It is important that Governor Bush do well. It's obviously important that Al Gore do well. |
It's a blizzard of emotions -- ecstasy and also agony that we had to go through this to start with, |
It's certainly a major thoroughfare across the United States, and to have it disrupted is not good news for commerce, |
It's just absolutely unprecedented. No one has ever heard of something like this, ... There are a lot of communities we are getting information from the highway patrol and sheriff's offices that have literally been obliterated. |
Our challenge here today is to help those in need until their need is over, ... For the next number of months, when those in the national news media are gone, when those who came to look and to help have gone onto other challenges, we will be here, together, as an Oklahoma family. |