“We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.”

Some one once asked me, what makes me think I’m special, or unique? I think the answer is that I never abandoned my childhood dreams. I still think if I work hard enough, that one day, at least some of them can come true. I believe this, to the very core of my existence, and I will never give up.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” -- Einstein

“Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

With Roberts' confirmation hearings set to begin, the White House's bureaucratic bungling and political stonewalling must come to an end.

[Lawmakers blistered former FEMA chief Michael Brown for bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina and for blaming the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans. During a hearing of a House committee investigating the response, some lawmakers accused Brown of placing his own job security ahead of storm victims' lives.] I don't know how you can sleep at night, ... I have overseen over 150 presidentially declared disasters. I know what I am doing. And I think I do a pretty darn good job of it.