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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well.

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.