Amerish Bera actually said...

"If we withdraw from the world, other nations are going to fill that void, and they won't necessarily share the values that we share."

"It disturbs me that... we have the Secretary of State doing the courtesy of sitting there and defending that budget."

"So that is also a negotiating leverage, that China needs to understand that if North Korea continues on its current path, then it may have more nuclear-armed nations in its neighborhood."

"North Korea is not going to back down and become nonnuclear. They see this as their only negotiating leverage."