Robert E. Lighthizer: “We ought to be manufacturing these things in the United States. That is what our objective is.”

It is not about aid, it is about trade. And it is not about short-term bailouts, it is about long-term business.

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

The United States is far better off in bilateral deals. We have the biggest market. We have more leverage.

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.