For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

It's going to take a while for some of these things.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

I'm also particularly pleased that there is bipartisan support to include the input of border communities. Not only will security be strengthened according to Washington, D.C., but border communities will have a say as well.

After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.