Jim Wilkinson Quotations

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

Secretary Rice asked him to stay but he felt it was time for new challenges. She reluctantly accepted his resignation but told him to keep his uniform ready.

One of the activities she wants to undertake as secretary is to bring colleagues to see parts of America.

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

What you had was a lot of young volunteers who, frankly, objected to this election being decided behind closed doors, without the media having a full view and without our observers having a full view. We executed our First Amendment rights in a peaceful manner, with full decorum.

Having seen what happened with Katrina last year and how much devastation that caused, we have a similar situation here in having widespread type of damage. This town meeting is to really help the public better understand their chances of seeing an earthquake occur and what could happen if it did occur.

Josh has served his country with honor and distinction in uniform, and he did a good job, a fantastic job, ... If Sept. 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we simply have to engage more with the Arab media. Josh clearly did a good job of engagement with their media.

We're known as a TIC sponsor. It's our responsibility to go out and identify properties that make sense as a TIC investment. We're the facilitating agent for TIC investors. We don't take ownership. Instead, we have a fee structure, and we manage the asset.

We saw in Hurricane Katrina that they had just (ended) a year and a half of focused planning on dealing with that exact scenario, and they fell on their face. So just to say you have a plan on the shelf or a plan in place is not the final answer. You've got to exercise it. And if you don't exercise it and work the bugs out, Mother Nature is going to exercise it for you. And that's definitely not where you want to test your plan.

When you fly 60 hours, at some point everyone goes mad. You just pray that it happens at different times along the way.

We think it is very important that she connects with the ordinary citizens of the countries she visits.

This new Iraqi government must perform on behalf of the Iraqi people, but the new government also gives us a chance to correct our mistakes and do our part to make Iraq work.

These proposals are part of the secretary's continuing strategy to dramatically increase America's engagement and dialogue with the world.

SONS07 will be the first major exercise in a decade involving a catastrophic seismic event in the New Madrid Zone. This is also the first time a SONS exercise has been conducted in this part of the country.

People that are calling are usually in trouble because they've waited a little bit or they're thinking about that re-roof they've put off for a while.

This exercise will give General Franks and the battle staff a front line opportunity to learn new lessons and improve the command's ability to be decisive on the modern battlefield.

Internal Look has begun and is proceeding on schedule,