I find that it would be a big mistake to close this facility at this time.

This is a better suit for Montana. We think F-15s are a better weapons system for that location.

This was all about people.

Homeland security and homeland defense, that played the biggest role in meeting the requirements that states have.

For a long time I believed in the death penalty. But now I know that the system can't be trusted to be right. I've been wrongly accused, wrongly convicted.

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.