I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'

Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working.

A Midwestern municipal government isn't the first thing that leaps to mind when you think of innovation, but it ought to be.

Our system of government, our form of democracy, would not work for China, just like China's system would not work for us.