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

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,

The problem the administration has is that the predicates it laid down for the war have not played out. That could spell political trouble for the president, there's no question.

He was somewhat of an enigma to many people. I'm not so sure he didn't get along, he just didn't mix a lot with people. He didn't seem to have a lot of friends.

We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.

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.