But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.