Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements.

In the late '90s, manufacturing was looked at as a cost to be controlled. It wasn't looked at strategically.

When you talk about mandatory minimums, it created a lot of unfairness in our sentencing.

We get divided generationally and in other ways - libertarians versus more traditional social conservatives, for example - and we've got to provide some flexibility there. But we don't need to have quite so many litmus tests. We need to have our big picture focused on economic issues.

In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.