We'll be able to actually see in this building what's happening in the field. There'll be video feed into the building to where we can actually watch the flood event as it occurs. The mathematical modeling that we use to predict how high the water is going to get is going to be greatly enhanced.

The name of the game in flood management.

We have, of course, the ability to do flood control right now, but it's spread out throughout our system.

On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man who spends all his time with one hand on the Bible and his other hand thrust down the pants of an adolescent child. I don’t want to hear it.

As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federlines among us, we will continue to come out sixteenth best with regard to producing and introducing to the human race things of true substance worth appreciating for their aesthetic ingenuity.

Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".