Thomas M. Countryman: “We have become, I would say, dangerously uncompetitive on the nuclear sphere when we cannot compete with countries like…”

The policy without professionals is by definition an amateur policy. You have to help make the choices that bring this country forward.

The problem with having a gold standard is it needs to have two things. It needs to be replicable, and it actually needs to be the best.

This agreement is not a commercial contract. It does not provide for the sale of nuclear equipment or technology to China.

China says--and I think it is borne out by their actions--that they do not support North Korea as a nuclear weapons state and that they wish to see the entire Korean Peninsula denuclearized.