It's fantastic. We have people coming in from all over the United States.

[He said that nobody likes the idea of people dying at the border,] but if the United States would gear up the political will to enforce its laws, it would actually be an act of compassion, ... The border is something the United States can certainly control. If we caught them, they wouldn't be losing their lives.

ideologies of Old Europe have condemned hundreds of millions of people to the economic slow track while the United States has accelerated into the distance, with India and China coming up on the rails.

I think the United States has a huge capacity but on the front end they don't want people to be waiting and suffering while the help arrives.

Well, a lot of people would say it's ridiculous to imagine the United States would either start something or stage something but - gee whiz! - Remember the Gulf of Tonkin!

Who knows what the real situation is in cattle in the United States? And with people, we could be sitting on a time bomb, because the incubation period of this disease in humans can be up to 40 years. That's why a blood test is so important. We need to know the extent of the problem, we need to make sure that beef and the human blood supply are safe, and we need early diagnosis so that when scientists develop a therapy we can intervene before clinical symptoms appear--by then, it's too late.