Internal Look has begun and is proceeding on schedule,

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.