Christopher J. Dodd: “As fewer and fewer people visit our great country, I think our economy is going to be hurt by that.”

Well, without a doubt, last year's Intelligence Reform Legislation was an important milestone in beginning to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

As Franklin Roosevelt said so eloquently more than 80 years ago, it is fear, and that fearing fear is what has, I think, had an awful lot to do with the lack of confidence in our country, and we need to get our confidence back.

I think the high rate at one point in the Nixon Administration is we were spending something close to 6 percent of the Federal budget on secondary and elementary education in this country, the Federal Government was.

Today, I think the figure is less than 2 percent.