Economic progress is about persons, not about regimes who are going to do this to the citizens of their own country.

these people need to be held accountable.

Middle East has oil. China has rare earths.

It is our humble opinion that without them, the green energy technologies that all of us want and desire today will not be possible.

It is not very productive to spend time blaming China or to seek legal threats or sanctions or whatever against China.

We need to act. We need to not depend on those legal actions to get where we need to go today.

I would take my 25 against their 6,000 any day.

Historically the answer has been a very simple absolutely not, but with prices for these rare earth elements where they are today, recycling has become a very, very important consideration by almost everybody that uses these minerals.

There is no question in my mind. The answer is yes, it will.

I was very disturbed at the behavior of the North Korean leadership in November 2010 when it attacked South Korea's island of Yeonpyeong with artillery shells, killing several people.

North Korea is listed by the State Department as a Tier III country with respect to human trafficking.