"...I don't understand why we tiptoe around these people. How pathetic. Instead of a submachine gun, we're shooting golf balls at them. They are laughing hard in the piracy world today..."
"...What is bothersome about this [piracy] saga, also, is the total silence from the various Islamic leaders around the world and in the West. Does their silence mean they actually condone these acts of piracy and kidnapping?..."
"...Many Somalis were angered by Somalia's ambassador to Moscow who backed the Russians' [execution of the pirates]. Listen my dear friends, you better back the Russians, and you'd better denounce and clean out your own termite's nest of these pirates. I don't know why the Americans just don't go in. Really, shoot these people at point-blank range and put an end to it..."
"Christie would be a heck of an entertaining president. Can you imagine what he would say about the Somali pirates? 'You know what, Somailia? Kidnap one more US boat, you're rubble!'"
"How does our projection of weakness and cowardice on the issue of these Somali pirates benefit anybody? It doesn't benefit this nation. It only benefits our enemies. It benefits the pirates. It does not benefit the hostages."
