the Department of Commerce must and will be an unyielding advocate for American business and American jobs, at home and around the world.

Those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held accountable to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our best in the light of day.

The drugs are coming north, and we are sending money and guns south. As a consequence, these cartels have gained extraordinary power.

America cannot meet the threats of this century alone.

I have every confidence that he and Secretary Clinton will ensure America’s continued close and unique partnership with Ireland in the years ahead.

The American people don't have the luxury of just focusing on Wall Street. They don't have the luxury of choosing to pay either their mortgage or their medical bills.

We are better for their contributions to our democracy, and we are richer for their art and their literature, their poetry and their songs.

Turning the tide on the threat of nuclear weapons and strengthening the international non-proliferation regime is one of the great and urgent challenges of our time.

The bond between our countries could not be stronger.

The bond and the friendship that is felt between the United States and Ireland is something that I think everybody understands.

The United States of America will always stand with those who work towards peace.

The American people sent us here to get things done.

I am appalled that you can buy a .50-caliber sniper weapon anywhere.

I want to thank the entire panel and just note for the record that we had ten members of this Committee come to ask questions, which is extraordinary for a Subcommittee meeting.

Arizona has become the gateway for drugs and human being smuggling into the rest of the United States.

The threat posted to American citizens and communities by the Mexican-based drug-trafficking organizations cannot be underestimated.

90 percent of the weapons that we traced that the Mexicans recover are source state here in the United States.

The only way we are going to be successful is to truly mount a comprehensive attack upon the cartels.