Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved.

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.