Matt Salmon: “There is an old axiom that you either act or you are acted upon, and I think that right now... we have neglected the…”

I wish for a speedy recovery for the Sri Lankan people and hope our newly invigorated development relationship that we're going to discuss today can help meet some of the challenges left in the wake of the storm.

I had predicted that that would be a smooth transition, it really would be one country, two systems. And Mr. Rohrabacher, I will say to you right now, with egg all over my face, I was wrong.

Their economy is in the tank, and the people are starving.

If we want to have a horrible problem, let's just ignore it because the more and more China bullies some of our partners.