I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

You know, Russia today is, what, 200 million people? In land mass, it's probably 50 times the size [of Japan], in natural resources a hundred times the size! Russia's not doing all that badly. The public there - not everybody - but they have things that the West offered, [that] were only available in the West a long time ago.

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.

I think it's a sign that the establishment is going to have to change. For too long they never thought about the average person, because the average person is not organized.

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.