"Let me assure you that every institution of the Federal Government that is typically involved in national security policy would like to see Iran as financially isolated as possible."
"I would think another decline in housing prices, or a failure to stabilize them and get them inching upward would be very bad for the economy, at least for the people I represent."
"Do you agree that allowing Iranian access to SWIFT undermines U.S. national security objectives?"
"Are any of you aware of any treaty ratified by the Senate that commits us to spend over $1 billion a year in aid to the Egyptian military?"
"But other than that, I haven't heard anybody in the room come up with a reason why that $1.3 billion is helping the United States."
"It is up to us to open the markets, to make sure that access to U.S. markets is contingent upon our access to theirs."
"A lot of companies come before Congress and wrap their agenda in jobs or the national interest."
"When we transfer manufacturing technology, we transfer our most valuable secrets, how to make the materials involved."
"I introduced, with Don Manzullo, the Defense Trade Controls Improvement Act of 2009."
"We found that the State Department had too few licensing officers."
"I think it would have much less of an effect, in that I think they could sell it elsewhere."