Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, ... Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.

Both the Democratic and the Republican parties stand for equality of all people. We have no room in our party, it seems to me, for someone who writes the things that he's written in the last year.

This country is big enough and strong enough to prepare for both.

I'm sorry to see anyone have to leave our party, but there comes a point where enough is enough.

What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster, ... God forbid this happens in San Francisco.

If we have a disaster -- and we think it is quite probable in the next 20-25 years -- we're not prepared to deal with it.

Marks the first significant step forward in a campaign for president by John McCain.

If you talk to mayors, to governors, to police chiefs, they are just not ready, and we had better get ready.

We're not talking about creating a new bureaucracy. We're talking about taking a number of bureaucracies and consolidating them into one streamlined organization.