These seminar leaders never talk about how much of your personal time it takes. They don't talk about the sweat equity.

When you think about . . . going into another country for the first time, it's a little daunting, ... I contacted the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and it was somewhat helpful, but they referred me to Baja Bush Pilots, and the information I got from them was far more helpful.

We think of these leaders as being cultural icons. If the president is healthy and doing fine, it seems like the country is healthy and doing fine. But if he's ill or struck down, we feel like there is something wrong with us, and we want to know why it happened.

I am representing all union leaders and if I allow what happened to me to go untested, then any old group could band together and overthrow the decisions of their presidents,

Most of these political leaders like to be out among the people, they like to be among the crowds so they are very uncomfortable with the kinds of changes they have to make to accommodate these serious security situations.

The best time to make these breakthroughs is when the political leaders are engaged. If it gets turned back to the bureaucracies, we'll never have an agreement.