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Michael Chertoff

"And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security."

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Donna Grant

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

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Donna Grant

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

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Donna Grant

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

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Donna Grant

"We are Englishmen; that is one good fact."

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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

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Donna Grant

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

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Donna Grant

"The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me."

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Donna Grant

"We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed."

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"Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian."

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"Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it."

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Michael Chertoff
"And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state."

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Michael Chertoff
"The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got."

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Michael Chertoff
"Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision."

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Michael Chertoff
"Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well."

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Michael Chertoff
"I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans."

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Michael Chertoff
"We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA."

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Michael Chertoff
"We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will."

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Michael Chertoff
"But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges."

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Michael Chertoff
"So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place."

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Michael Chertoff
"And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security."

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