Every year we sort of have a shrinking percentage of the overall budget, because of our runaway mandatory spending.

The more you buy, the more you build, the cheaper they are.

Keeping Iran from producing a nuclear weapon is far different than having the capability of doing that.

I don't think they were invited in there, would have been invited in there, had we known that they were going to breach their responsibility in terms of invading a neighbor.

Senator Durbin and I yesterday coauthored a Senate resolution relative to some sanctions, really not sanctions so much as providing some isolation.

The United States, led in many ways by the Senate--you were a member there at the time--went through the careful and, I think, painstaking process of both diplomacy and tough sanctions.

Clearly it is a top priority, and we ought to make sure that it is adequately funded.

I call it a rotten carcass of an economic system. It clearly does not work.

I think we have found another one. Given the fact that consumers drive about 70 percent of the economic activity in the country, we ought to do something to help the middle class.

Do you have the resources now or do you, what additional resources might you need in analysis resources to really put together a strong cyberosecurity protection system?

It's both a privacy issue and a safety issue, because hacking into the system... can result in the disclosure of the collection of information.