The number of law firms in this time that are representing the Chinese is a disgrace.

For more than 200 years the United States has prospered because it is the home for people from every nation who are drawn to freedom.

I mean, we worked hard to plus up your budgets and we hope we can protect the funding here.

We must capitalize immediately on our great university system, it truly is the best.

The last question I have was the genesis of this hearing. I saw the article in the New York Times a couple months ago where it said that President Obama was meeting with Steve Jobs, and the President asked Steve Jobs on manufacturing, 'how…

It is penny-wise and pound-foolish not to have highly skilled, highly trained managers of big, large contracts.

we're not looking to spend a lot more money, but if there's some information.

Every politician loves to say that America's best days are yet ahead and the sun has barely begun to rise on our country.

I agree with you entirely, there is no bigger scandal in this country than the way we are failing teenagers.

I did it for the following reasons: because I wanted to save America from the ramifications of failure.

I believe there is almost no gap now between the United States and China in terms of capability.

the only bill that really probably has an opportunity to really make a difference is the Simpson-Bowles Commission

In your testimony, you talked about how the Affordable Health Care Act actually helped reduce Federal outlays and long term actually will contribute to deficit reduction.

We have to get out of this mindless narrative that all spending is the same and all spending is bad.

I think there has been difficulty moving this into the political process is that people are not able to see what the ramifications of failure are.

If we go down that route we are going to end up with youth unemployment unlike anything this Nation has seen in its history.

I think this place is dysfunctional, I think it is absolutely a bipartisan dysfunction.

the political system is ineffective