If you get on a train in Washington and take it up to New York, close your book and do not buy a newspaper and just look off to the right and the left, you will see factories are in decay.

The manufacturing base of our country is eroding pretty rapidly.

it is important to speak out. It is important we have good relations. It is important we trade, but to advocate publicly.

It does trouble me, though, that the insensitivity of the previous administration and of this administration and of this Congress, of the Republicans in this Congress, and of the Democrats in this Congress, the issue of human rights and…

And we just have to do a better job of advocating and connecting with regard to human rights and religious freedom.

Just as a result of the NAPA review?

You have announced your intent to create a NOAA Climate Service. This was done absent any proposal in the fiscal year 2011 budget and absent any of the required notification to the Committee.

Have you ever thought of putting together a repatriation team?

The reality of it is America, if you look at the scores and you look at we used to be number one, now the competition is not only with China and India, but it is in Poland and Hungary and Romania and Bulgaria.

Now, you need the authorization of the authorizers to do this? Do you plan on asking for legislation?

We are neglecting the oceans, I think.

It should not only be China, though. I think that is very good. But Egypt has done some torturing, and you can just go down the line.

the number one objective has to be national security. And that has to be paramount.

I would think, though, and I would urge you, the next time you go to China, ... if you would go to a house church and worship, not with a recognized church, with a house church.

I would encourage you to do that quickly; 60 Minutes had a piece on that about 3 weeks ago.

However, I am concerned that business interests may prevail over national security interests.

Our system of export controls is meaningless if the plans for developing dual-use technologies are posted by the U.S. Government on the Internet.

if we could talk about maybe developing an incentive and if you could also have someone call me to see what literature is out there about any major action that has been done by this administration or other administrations in repatriation.