"We do have to double our investment in R&D."
"A large number of the entrepreneurs and the startups are started by immigrants."
"Congress should insert itself into this process and it does not have to be adversarial."
"Each administration has got some things right, but they have also got a lot wrong."
"So $132 billion on reconstruction, we have spent more on Afghanistan than we spent on the whole Marshall Plan rebuilding."
"We have created a dependency in Afghanistan on U.S. dollars."
"I would like to first start by acknowledging the loss of Nawres Hamid, who was a resident of Sacramento County."
"It is unfortunate that we are seeing such partisan dialog here."
"our country is better served when the Administration and Congress are working together, having dialog, even if we disagree."
"How diminished is our role by not being part of the human rights community right now?"
"It is enormously problematic. Other governments want the U.S. leadership. They want the air cover."