"One hurricane hitting where you live is enough to make it a bad season."

"One hurricane hitting where you live is enough to make it a bad season."
Max Mayfield
Director of the National Hurricane Center.
"It has been longer and harder than any of us would have wanted it to be, but this is a new beginning and we want to see what you want to see, which is Iraq and the Iraqi people able to take charge in their own destiny and to write the next chapter of Iraqi history themselves."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair
On the continuing war in Iraq and his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.