Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times but now I'm a little more savvy.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now by way of investment in our technology our organization and our people.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs politics investment and technology.

I have run large organizations I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll gotten a return on investment knows how to use technology to do more with less.