I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.
I believe that the more this hemisphere operates with a sense of common purpose, I think the better we'll all do.
Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.
Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.
I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.
For months before he passed, my dad would have terrible night sweats, and soak through his sheets, often several times a night. Each time, mom would gently roll him over, replace the sheets, and roll him back - then spend the whole next day washing several sets of sheets, only to repeat the routine each night.
We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.
Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.