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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

We strongly feel we have to protect everything.

Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.