Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.
And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security.
We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.
Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.
Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.
We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.
The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.