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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

I would like to see America some day.

We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?