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We have not called him on this. We have not exercised the various tools that we have available to hold this government accountable.

In fact, they are re-arresting or arresting new political prisoners for speaking out.

Yes. There have been. In fact, it was only until the United States took the lead in exerting diplomatic and economic pressure that the Europeans then followed.

We need to recognize that in many instances we have lost the trust of the American people as an institution.

I would love to see that Maine Yankee site eliminated.

I consider the positions that you have been nominated to be incredibly important because of the underlying issue of trust of our democratic system.

The fact that outsiders are doing so well this year, it seems to me, is something we should think about in terms of the relationship of government to the American people.

There are a number of countries that I think I would like to see more positive on the human rights situation in North Korea.

I think it is just very difficult to speculate and calculate, assess what the post-Kim Jong-un political leadership may look like.

I think we do have an obligation to do that because the United States is the indispensable party to any possible resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Putin wants Assad in more than we want him out.

How important is it for us to get rid of Assad? And is it worth risking a war?

Our policy has been a--benign neglect is too strong a term, but it's been a kind of--go slow.

I appreciate your testimony, and I appreciate the urgency of this situation, and just want to be sure we understand all the implications when we move forward.

But, it's your position that this Geneva Convention assurance of being a protected person constitutes a solemn promise of the United States to look after these people indefinitely?

They're doing pretty well by stealing our intellectual property, he alleged.

I would hope that that would also--and that--the leadership and decisionmaking on that has to start with the White House, it has to start with the administration, for an all-of-government approach to dealing with this…

If there's a catastrophic attack tonight on the fiscal infrastructure or the financial infrastructure of this country, I do not want to go on cable news in the morning, if there is cable news in the morning, and say, 'The administration…