State ownership of flood control efforts will not completely eliminate the problem but can substantially reduce it.

VCs can be a bad influence and are not a good role model for students.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

You know what term you don't hear anymore? Arbitrage. The markets have gotten too efficient.

Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.