Guidelines are great if people are adopting them and implementing them.

I am a great believer that every child is born with a bright light inside them which represents, of course, their potential.

I think now we are beginning to realize that CEOs know this now better than they used to, that if we don't work on those issues in the dawn of a child's life, you can't even begin to talk about an educated person or a high-skilled person…

I am here to help these kids and all kids across the United States beat those odds.

We can obliterate obesity, too, but we have to have some standards that are ranked right up there with air and water and immunization.

Well, thank you. And I wanted to--I know we have to conclude, but--wanted to get your sense of how we're doing with regard to resettlement of Iraqi refugees, in general, but, in particular, whether or not we're doing enough to resettle…

We cannot rush the return of the refugees, or rush the return of the IDPs, beyond a point where they're not comfortable.

I think that we should think of it, still, as a transition for Iraq, and eventually our diplomatic posture in Iraq may look different.

What is our Government doing? ... the need for someone in the White House to be able to coordinate...

Which--well, depending on how you count it--but, this was--this was extraordinary.

the amount that has been pledged, $160 million recently, is not so greatly different than what it was in the last couple of fiscal years.

Our Government is providing substantial help, here. The Obama administration has committed about $150 million to assist displaced Iraqis in this current fiscal year, 2009.

I guess the volume, too, is a problem, huh?

So, according to what you're saying, the number outside of Iraq is too high, possibly--the 2 million.

I think that any sectarian definition of those who get preference--in other words, saving Iraqi Christians because they're Iraqi Christians--would be a very big mistake.

How about with regard to what our Government's doing, vis-a-vis Syria? Is there more that we should be doing, in terms of any kind of new strategy or new initiative with regard to Syria?

I couldn't agree more. Oil and gas has been the dominant economic force in the northwestern part of my district for over 150 years.

Training becomes the priority.