We have learned some significant lessons in Iraq.
I think it is interesting that, you know, you all have pointed out that obviously Iraq and Afghanistan are two very different places.
My understanding, at least, is that while you have some amount of established protocols within certain specialties, that the evolution of or...
What I have believed for some time is that--and this case I think reflects this--as we move toward getting better data...
I do think that one of the things Mr. Atkins said that struck home to me... is over the last 10, 15-plus years, the enormous focus on the eq...
I believe a lot of good things may have come out of Sarbanes-Oxley.
I do think we need something to make sure the board members don't get captured as quickly and often as they do.
I would like to hear out those arguments because it does seem to me that from at least a broader-based societal standpoint, the outside risk...
I strongly support this nomination. I have been pleased to work with Ambassador Hill regularly over the past couple of years.
I don't think this nomination should be put on hold in any way. We have too many things to be doing in Iraq and in that part of the world.
I read them last fall when they were, I think, wrongly categorized as restricted information.
I very much appreciate that answer.
I hope Chris Hill won't become the Rorschach Test for what the policy should have been in the last administration with respect to Korea.
I wish it was that simple. Perhaps it is, but I would love to hear that thorough debate...
I guess one thing we have had under the Chairman's leadership, we have had a lot of folk come by on this issue of too big to fail.
I think what it does is it speaks eloquently to the need for a systemic regulator, whether it be the Fed or whether it be a committee approa...
I want to continue a little bit on the line of my colleague from Nebraska on the 'too big to fail' component.
We look at size, we look at complexity. Another approach which I have been thinking about for some time...
