There's a sense that there is a double standard here.

Our concern is that this episode will send exactly the wrong signal not only to Arab investors but to investors around the world.

My sense is, if the deal would have involved anyone in the world except an Arab country, it would not have raised scrutiny.

This company played by the rules, and now it looks like the U.S. government is trying to move the goalposts. We're concerned that this could have a very chilling effect on investment in the U.S., particularly from the Arab world.

If they feel like they have to go through the whole political process in the United States to buy a company, they're going to say, the heck with it.

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.