Whether it was the Alaskan pipeline disaster or the Texas City refinery fire where 15 people died, time after time it's been shown that BP chooses expediency over safety.

I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.

[The job of lawmakers at a time like this is to] make the bureaucracy work for the people we represent, ... I am not a doctor or a trained [emergency services] person. But my job is to make sure those resources are there.

Time is the fire in which we burn

A lot of people have been afraid, have been scared because of the WorldCom disaster. But a lot of value players are now rushing into AT&T, ... Why? Not because of the phone business, because they have sold their cable assets to Comcast. And that brings a new ball game for AT&T holders. You know, the Comcast deal will give each AT&T shareholder about a third of Comcast stock.

It's that time of the year. It doesn't take much to get a fire up and running.