What a lot of people don't know is that very visible corporate executives with very visible companies do have executive-protection details. And a good detail is you don't see them. They're at their best when they're transparent.

Our people are trained to protect our clients without being big and obvious. We allow our clients to focus on their business and let us worry about reducing the risk.

Every day we escort executives and engineers through Latin America. If you kidnap a chief executive or vice president, you've kidnapped a company. If you have that executive, then you've disrupted that company. That's our job, to prevent it from happening.

None of us laughed at Helen. Maybe because in 1970 we listened more to new ideas, however sentimental or foolish they sound all these years later in the harsh light of the millennium’s end. We wanted to find new answers for old questions, or we just thought there were new answers. And even with all the death that came daily, the death that would come to our gathering in the meadow, life in America felt as if it were being recast, reshaped, even redeemed by some transcendent thing.

I was a paralegal who worked in the office quite a bit. I think she just realized I was a friendly person and responsible. She thought it would be a good jump for me.

It was very tough last night. When you get un-elected, you're done that minute.