But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.