Knowledge has to be improved challenged and increased constantly or it vanishes.

I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology support the TSA workforce and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say all of our collective mission.

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was unfortunately lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

It is the ability to take a joke not make one that proves you have a sense of humor.

I hope that through my example such as my role on 'The West Wing ' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.