"if you don't have that long-term plan, if you don't have that roadmap, how are we going to make the decisions"
"lack of mission clarity makes it much harder to make some of these decisions on what assets to keep"
"I continue to be particularly troubled by ongoing reports of ethnic violence, remaining political prisoners, suppression, mass arrests and raids on homes and monasteries."
"But the truth is for this hope and optimism to continue there are major challenges that Burma will need to overcome."
"We must also send a clear-cut message of what our values are and that the United States and its hope for success will not tolerate human rights abuses and oppression."
"I am a physician by training and I represent Sacramento County in the northern California area where we have got a huge methamphetamine challenge."
"Increasingly, more of the meth that does seem to be coming from Mexico does seem to be being smuggled in as liquid as well."
"So I am not painting a rosy scenario here. This is a challenge."
"I look at this issue as a doctor. But also the focus of this hearing is India, and I look at the issue as an Indian American, but the most important title I hold today is being the father of a daughte..."
"It is an imperative that every girl and every woman on this planet is empowered that same way."
"I believe that in order to empower women, and in order for women to be able to exercise the choices that they need to make about their lives and who they are, that the right to abortion has to be part..."
"Coercion in any form is wrong and should be unacceptable, whether it is done at the population level or whether it is done at the individual level."