Robert E. Lighthizer: “It is hard for me to understand why we tolerate so many barriers to agriculture trade when America is the number-one…”

There is a long history of failure by China to protect intellectual property.

these things have to be bipartisan. They cannot be partisan.

I realize we have a political system that makes it difficult, but, nonetheless, the reality is an awful lot of our senior politicians do take a long view.

I think they have been victims, as much as anybody in America, of what goes on in China.