Our assessment is that a staggering amount of terror financing travels through ordinary western banking channels. We believe that the banks knowingly facilitate terror financing.

We now have a better appreciation of the linkages in such terror attacks and a better assessment of how to articulate it in public.

When it passed the Anti-Terrorism Act, congress recognized the threat posed by terrorism financing and it enacted legislation to prevent exactly this kind of alleged conduct.

The amount of generosity from around the country, I'm sure, is staggering right now from people just giving what they can. We're just getting in line behind those people, getting in line a long way behind the Red Cross or National Guard, but we all have to do a little bit.

The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering.

I believe the assessment that if we pull out it will leave an unsettled situation that is bad for the neighborhood and bad for us. Therefore I'd be willing to stay longer if I believed what we're doing would lead to progress in six to 12 months. But I have not seen that evidence, so I'm skeptical that it will. . . . So it may be what we're pursuing, if not effective, then there's no point to it.