Bennie Thompson quote: "Like that day four Septembers ago, we once again find ourselves asking, 'How could this have happened? ... The answer is painful, but it must be acknowledged: we simply were unprepared."

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their ...
BENNIE THOMPSON

How can the government say it is serious about reconstructing the Gulf Coast and edge out small and ...
BENNIE THOMPSON

[Thompson said, for example, that oil pipelines in the Southeast have been identified by DHS as crit...
BENNIE THOMPSON

This is the best run, cleanest shelter that I have seen!
BENNIE THOMPSON

to look into this contract and see if there is a legitimacy to my concerns that we may be paying twi...
BENNIE THOMPSON

If we can send a rocket ship to meet another rocket ship and do whatever they do when they dock and ...
BENNIE THOMPSON

I don't understand it. It's clear that the child should be in the custody of his father,
BENNIE THOMPSON

To get a barbering license, a license to be a cosmetologist, a license to be a plumber or electricia...
BENNIE THOMPSON

We need a real citizen preparedness plan -- one that takes care of children, the elderly and the dis...
BENNIE THOMPSON

There is just more of the good old boy system taking care of its political allies, ... FEMA and the ...
BENNIE THOMPSON

Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terror...
BENNIE THOMPSON

We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the Uni...
BENNIE THOMPSON

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benef...
BENNIE THOMPSON

There are a lot of questions that ultimately now put more light on the Secretary of Homeland Securit...
BENNIE THOMPSON

We need a real citizen preparedness plan ? one that takes care of children, the elderly and the disa...
BENNIE THOMPSON

what you see is not really what is.
BENNIE THOMPSON

The London bombing last week, coupled with the Madrid bombing last year, should be a wake-up call to...
BENNIE THOMPSON

It was too little, too late. We missed the mark.
BENNIE THOMPSON

That was just a boneheaded statement from someone who should be in charge of this situation, ... The...
BENNIE THOMPSON

I had been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, ... But what confidence should we have in h...
BENNIE THOMPSON

It is ironic and strange that an administration that has had so little success in responding to Hurr...
BENNIE THOMPSON

I don't think this response can just be handled by FEMA and local units of government.
BENNIE THOMPSON

It would be one thing if the department didn't identify security lapses in the first place, but a mo...
BENNIE THOMPSON

I am concerned that FEMA is not ready and we'll see much of what we saw during Katrina, ... I've bee...
BENNIE THOMPSON

does not have any particular expertise in constructing or installing portable classrooms or other te...
BENNIE THOMPSON

The president has talked about small businesses being the engine of our economy, but when the time f...
BENNIE THOMPSON

needs to go talk to some of the people I'm talking to.
BENNIE THOMPSON

That's twice the cost and for the taxpayers. That's not right. If you're going to do business with M...
BENNIE THOMPSON

While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a singl...
BENNIE THOMPSON

People just looked at him, ... He was the first speaker, and it sort of went downhill after that. Pe...
BENNIE THOMPSON

This year, Republicans in Congress cut first-responder homeland security programs by $604 million, a...
BENNIE THOMPSON

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medica...
BENNIE THOMPSON

Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives,
BENNIE THOMPSON

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do...
BENNIE THOMPSON

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seni...
BENNIE THOMPSON

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.
BENNIE THOMPSON

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm...
BENNIE THOMPSON

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.
BENNIE THOMPSON

At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get...
BENNIE THOMPSON

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.
BENNIE THOMPSON

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want ...
BENNIE THOMPSON

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.
BENNIE THOMPSON

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation ca...
BENNIE THOMPSON

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be h...
BENNIE THOMPSON

Please, please be very, very diligent in what you do. Your actions could affect more than just yours...
BENNIE SETH

If you live in a county where they do allow you to do outdoor burning and you know you have a lot of...
BENNIE SETH

They're expecting and predicting a very dry early summer, so we need to begin thinking about how we'...
BENNIE SETH

We have been completely overwhelmed by the generosity of the citizens of Jacksonville.
BENNIE SETH

A lot of the food we sent over with the firefighters they shared with desperate citizens of Mississi...
BENNIE SETH

All of our folks have returned, except of maybe about 10. So, we're ready and staffed up.
BENNIE SETH

We'll be tailoring their education,
BENNIE OSBURN

The next 15 years are going to be very exciting,
BENNIE OSBURN

The federal government needs to see this (shortage) as being important for safe food, disease contro...
BENNIE OSBURN

That campus will really put us into a different type of learning environment for our students,
BENNIE OSBURN

Every year in order to pass a budget certain laws have to be waived.
BENNIE SHELLY

The judge and jury is the role we need to play.
BENNIE SHELLY

It was retaliation because they didn't get their land acquisition passed. That is not a good leader ...
BENNIE SHELLY

If we get up to 2 inches of rain, I do expect some intersections and some streets to flood because o...
BENNIE SELLERS

We had a mechanical shutdown on the big generator at plant two. We have the Caterpillar people comin...
BENNIE SELLERS

I love helping people and I love what I do. This isn't work to me. When my job starts feeling like a...
BENNIE GIBBS

Doug basically reiterated the same things that Tubby taught me - discipline and hard work.
BENNIE GIBBS

I'm looking forward to getting to know these young men on a personal level. They're young and quick,...
BENNIE GIBBS

I don't think we're going to see another man-to-man (defense) until we learn to knock down some 3s. ...
BENNIE EDWARDS

We tried to keep as much pressure on them as possible and rattle their guards.
BENNIE EDWARDS

Free throws are obviously important. Clay took a lot more than we did but we did not capitalize on o...
BENNIE EDWARDS

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but...
TESSA THOMPSON

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
LEA THOMPSON

When Elvis came out on stage, it became electric. And the way people responded to him was such that,...
LINDA THOMPSON

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.
LINDA THOMPSON

I never felt more loved than when I was with Elvis.
LINDA THOMPSON

I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum ja...
LINDA THOMPSON

Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he lov...
LINDA THOMPSON

As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life.
LINDA THOMPSON

I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene - bigger, higher, fa...
LINDA THOMPSON

We only do harm to ourselves when we harbor resentment and vitriol toward another. I do believe that...
LINDA THOMPSON

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace...
LINDA THOMPSON

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
LINDA THOMPSON

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a l...
KATE THOMPSON

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of...
KATE THOMPSON

I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play t...
KATE THOMPSON

I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good ...
KATE THOMPSON

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
KATE THOMPSON

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've w...
KATE THOMPSON

Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philos...
KATE THOMPSON

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. Th...
KATE THOMPSON

What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are s...
KATE THOMPSON

What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolte...
KATE THOMPSON

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at En...
KATE THOMPSON

There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at...
KATE THOMPSON

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he ...
KATE THOMPSON

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination...
KATE THOMPSON

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
KATE THOMPSON

I've always felt a bit hard done by in England - you know, I've won the Bisto three times in...
KATE THOMPSON

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give...
KATE THOMPSON

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. Th...
KATE THOMPSON

You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very int...
KATE THOMPSON

When in doubt, use brute force.
KEN THOMPSON

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Citi...
CLIVE THOMPSON

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. A...
JIM THOMPSON

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of br...
SCOTT THOMPSON

I will probably hear more in the next day or so. His last tests showed an improvement and he has inc...
ALAN THOMPSON

This job is well-suited for people who want to work hard. Some of the people who work here just love...
ALAN THOMPSON

I'm taking video evidence of a number of incidents over the last two years which happened at the Oly...
ALAN THOMPSON

(We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at ...
ALAN THOMPSON

Celtic is one of the world's biggest clubs and this agreement sets the seal on an amazing month for ...
ALAN THOMPSON

Congratulations on holding the line this year, ... We appreciate the efforts your department has had...
ALAN THOMPSON

I think sometimes people think, 'We'll leave it for Grant to do'.
ALAN THOMPSON

I think some of the guys prepared poorly,
ALAN THOMPSON

Had he been in a different era, he would have been the one, and this time he has been able to stand ...
ALAN THOMPSON

And they have got an ability to coach and an ability to swim. Even in the old days - whatever they w...
ALAN THOMPSON

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletic...
DALEY THOMPSON

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
DALEY THOMPSON

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
DALEY THOMPSON

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be th...
DALEY THOMPSON

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after...
DALEY THOMPSON

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to cat...
DALEY THOMPSON

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
DALEY THOMPSON

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power ...
DALEY THOMPSON

I am only about winning and getting better.
DALEY THOMPSON

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.
DALEY THOMPSON

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my care...
DALEY THOMPSON

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything...
DALEY THOMPSON

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
DALEY THOMPSON

If you're not in it you can't win it.
DALEY THOMPSON

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don'...
DALEY THOMPSON

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really w...
DALEY THOMPSON

I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you ...
DALEY THOMPSON

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon r...
DALEY THOMPSON

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't affo...
DALEY THOMPSON

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
DALEY THOMPSON

I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur...
DALEY THOMPSON

I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit sla...
DALEY THOMPSON

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to im...
DALEY THOMPSON

If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - a...
DALEY THOMPSON

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
DALEY THOMPSON

Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now ...
LEA THOMPSON

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
E.P. THOMPSON

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again...
CRAIG THOMPSON

When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems ver...
SADA THOMPSON

I am a very bottom-up thinker.
KEN THOMPSON

It was the first study conducted with middle-class African-American men.
AARON THOMPSON

Defense is key, it comes first.
AARON THOMPSON

It's the right thing to do. We're doing what any responsible institution would do.
AARON THOMPSON

It's safe to say the institutions won't be up and running for a while. They'll be here for at least ...
AARON THOMPSON

It's just interaction with your customer, if he's buying you a drink, that should be OK, and you kno...
AARON THOMPSON

[To meet that need, said Aaron Thompson of the Orange County Red Cross, the school board has turned ...
AARON THOMPSON

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a c...
TESSA THOMPSON

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beau...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ROY THOMPSON

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
DOROTHY THOMPSON

We have become a little Main Street. These shops are out there every single Saturday selling mostly ...
ALLEN THOMPSON

This community has been outstanding. There are a lot of differences of opinion in this community, bu...
ALLEN THOMPSON

We've become the place where people come to meet. Because we are in the center of town, people will ...
ALLEN THOMPSON

It has been very, very exciting. It has really grown.
ALLEN THOMPSON

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behav...
EMMA THOMPSON

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
ROY THOMPSON

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the sha...
LEWIS THOMPSON

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flow...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in mot...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
DOROTHY THOMPSON

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We t...
EMMA THOMPSON

I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers Round the day's dead sanctities....
FRANCIS THOMPSON

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
FRED THOMPSON

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
DOROTHY THOMPSON

I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably...
TEDDY THOMPSON

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving...
KATE THOMPSON

I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last te...
TEDDY THOMPSON

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.
SOPHIE THOMPSON

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - wh...
CLIVE THOMPSON

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.
SOPHIE THOMPSON

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Borderin...
RICHARD THOMPSON

Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of th...
LINDA THOMPSON

My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which...
TEDDY THOMPSON

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not t...
EMMA THOMPSON

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.
FRED THOMPSON

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
DOROTHY THOMPSON

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my...
DALEY THOMPSON

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old ...
LEA THOMPSON

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
FRED THOMPSON

I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding i...
LEA THOMPSON

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
DOROTHY THOMPSON

I wear pink on Saturdays for breast cancer, and I wear blue on Sundays. I'm superstitious. At th...
LEXI THOMPSON

It's cool. It's reverse modeling really. Instead of taking a structure and finding out what vibratio...
BARBARA THOMPSON

[University of Colorado's Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) will measure spectral ene...
BARBARA THOMPSON

LWS is kind of science with an edge.
BARBARA THOMPSON

Like that day four Septembers ago, we once again find ourselves asking, 'How could this have happened? ... The answer is painful, but it must be acknowledged: we simply were unprepared.

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Like that day four Septembers ago, we once again find ourselves asking, 'How could this have happened? ... The answer is painful, but it must be acknowledged: we simply were unprepared.

Bennie Thompson

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