Not long after we started working for him I asked Bernard if he thought Thatcher was evil,’I said. ‘He said it was like asking what jazz is.

On the news tonight the new President said there’s no reason for anyone to worry about the situation. He didn’t say which situation.

Clearly, this is the most challenging story we've ever had to manage, at least in the United States.

These people, they've been around there since Saturday, around the clock, ... We're going to look at a second wave (of personnel).

There's been an enormous commitment of resources. You're right, it's a lot of money. But (cover the news is) what we do.

This compares to absolutely nothing that we've ever done before, and we've been here 20 years, ... It's so enormous, so devastating. It's hard enough to tell that story. But it's like a military operation in terms of our people and our supply lines.

This one is a marathon. It's going to go for a long time,

We try to look and be very respectful and careful about that.

People want to see what lessons the government learned and the response that is going to be made,

We had been using car batteries. But now most of them are under water.