"Asia's important. That's why it's important that we not enter into bad trade deals or unnecessary military confrontations in Asia."
"But the deal is so bad that it has to be sold as a China containment policy because it is certainly not a jobs creation policy."
"There is a tendency when making policy to yield to the interests of the most powerful entity in this country that cares about that policy."
"I would urge you to talk to Beijing about making that plane land because if your sole defense for what I laid out is that the Iranians wouldn't want to violate a U.N. resolution and they'd feel bad ab..."
"What would happen if we simply didn't provide the aid until Dr. Afridi and his family were released?"
"I hope you convey that Congress probably won't [provide aid], and next year, I would suggest Congress is much less likely to."
"We still have a system where the umpire is paid by one of the teams and selected by that team."
"The debt markets are obviously far more important to the economy, or at least involve far more capital, than the stock markets."
"It is absurd to think that IRA accounts would have one set of protections and non-IRA, non-pension accounts would have another."
"We are being war hawks about some islets that remain uninhabited to this day. That is how useless they are."
"We have seen democracy in Burma or Myanmar move forward. But keep in mind, democracy is not touted as a system that necessarily protects minority rights."