Our job is ensure that those deals that injure consumers don't go through, ... On the other hand, we don't want to prevent 99 out of the 100 deals that are either neutral from a competitive point of view or actually pro consumer and pro efficiency.

A lot of their deals are like that. The last thing they would have wanted was a bidding war over Russell.

It is clear they did not achieve much except introductions and adios.

The United States appears to be a debtor nation in perpetuity.

I just can't imagine anyone in the United States military who would not understand the distinction between a jihadist and a radical Islamist and Muslims. I think that is snobbery from elitists. It goes to the issue, it seems to me, of an orthodoxy, a political correctness that has infiltrated the U.S. Army.

We're still in business, keep working.