But I got to the point where there was just nothing else I could do because .. we ran out of time. I'm enormously disappointed about it.

I thought that over time, through the efforts of Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley and others on the House side, we would have been able to strike a note of interest from the Department of Defense. The faulty logic that I had was that I felt we could garner that interest. We were not able to do that.

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming demonstrates that processing natural materials on an industrial scale is a suicidal practice.

I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.

In a sense, there is no such thing as a bargain in computing. Models which are popular sell for the price they are supposed to fetch for the best part of their product cycle.

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.