People ought to stay out of our business.

Federal grants to first responders should be distributed on risk and vulnerability.

Generally, the grades range all the way from A to F.

We are safer but we are not yet safe. Four years after 9/11, we are not as safe as we could be. And that is unacceptable. While the terrorists are learning and adapting, our government...

There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven’t been done. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.

The most painful death in all the world is the death of a child. When a child dies, when one child dies-not the 11 per 1,000 we talk about statistically, but the one that a...

It is a scandal in our minds.

On September 11, people died because police officers couldn’t talk to firemen. And Katrina was a reenactment of the same problem. It is really hard to believe this has not been fixed.

Changes in government organization are vastly important but are still only part of what we need to do.

The problem was the CIA and FBI not communicating and not picking them up.

Our purpose is to find out why things happened, how they could have happened, and what we can do to prevent their ever happening again.