Foreign government-owned companies should not operate ports.

This wouldn't effect us. We are a 100 percent government department. ... We are already a transparent, open book.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

They take these cute pictures of their kids and then give up on them because simple things, like putting them in an album or e-mailing them to a friend, are just too hard. Your camera phone becomes a quiet little graveyard for all the pictures you take. They're just locked up in there to die. We're trying to solve that problem.

We want to wait and see how it's worked out and then we'll reconsider the nomination.

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.