They're out there. I know they are out there.

These rare and important treasures of art need to be returned to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and be on view again for the general public. When people often talk of the monetary value of works of art, the value of artworks extends far beyond such a measure. Let this year, as we embark on our Centennial celebrations, be further celebrated by the return of these stolen treasures to the Gardner -- and to a waiting public ready to join in on the celebration.

Eleven years ago, we were not able to even talk about immunity, because the police and the FBI were concerned with prosecution. But now, as I've said, the whole landscape has changed and we're just hopeful that on the occasion of the 15th [anniversary] that this just comes a rallying point for this to be over with.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

Turns out that no one has measured the wind speed at the summit,

The problem is you've got to build something that's absolutely bombproof,