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"We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack."
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"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."
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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
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"If we live in the moment every misery shall fade."
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"If we do right, we shall rejoice."
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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
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"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
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"The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!"
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"When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away."
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"I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive."
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"So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city."
Money
"The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you."
Money
"And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again."
Money
"And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane."
Want
"The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country."
Money
"The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast."
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"And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money."
Money
"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."
Money
"The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got."
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"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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