James M. Talent: “I wonder if he has had this experience that I have had. Small businesses come to me and say, well, okay, they will say…”

the biggest enemy I think we confront in this is inertia, and to defeat inertia, it takes tremendous leadership and perseverance.

Congress cannot pay too much attention to the fact that we live in an era of information technology which has, unfortunately, greatly increased the danger to the United States and the world of asymmetric weapons.

I certainly agree that these are vital concerns, given the power of cyber weapons, their escalatory potential, and the downside consequences of a miscalculation.

The threat of a bio-attack is, in my judgment, one of the greatest and gravest.