I think collection of information ought to be the primary role of the CIA.

There are a lot of specific issues that affect the American people: Jobs, inflation, energy policy, agricultural policy, education, health, fair taxes, and many others, and I intend to address them all.

I would like to remove them from the welfare system altogether; place them under the responsibility of the Labor Department.

I have always avoided trying to give simplistic answers just for political expediency.

I think the proper role of the CIA is the role that was spelled out in the original legislation that set up the CIA.

When I am the host of a meeting where decisions are made I would favor the meetings being open.

I favored at that time a quick withdrawal of our troops from Vietnam, completely.

I think the American people resent being put in boxes and I have always avoided that myself.

I personally feel that the Pentagon Papers should have been revealed by the New York Times.

I want the American people to understand my character, my weaknesses, the kind of person I am.

The one single issue that comes to mind with which I have had the most difficulty has been the amnesty question.

I don't see any reason for the CIA through covert means to try to overthrow governments.

I think I am sensitive; I am tough.

I think the public at large does not yet realize that what we confront is not just New York City's fiscal crisis, but a national problem.

It is time for our government leaders to recognize that the people who inhabit even the poorest and most deteriorating of our central cities are our fellow Americans.

Today, America's No. 1 economic problem is our cities.

We must get the money and services to the people who need them, and not just to the communities that happen to be most skilled in the art of grantsmanship.

We simply can no longer afford the price of the red tape.