Eni Faleomavaega: “American Samoa's private sector economy had been nearly 80% dependent... on two of the three major brands.”

It took American democracy over 200 years to develop where we are now.

We think that the United States, that American companies will bring a tremendous amount of technology and support to be able to help that.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and certainly want to thank him for his most eloquent statements towards me. I feel a little embarrassed by it, but I do want to thank him. I do want to note, also, that it has been my honor to have…

I have always complained about the fact that we did not seem to pay attention to the Asia-Pacific Region from previous administrations.