Brad Sherman

Structure can actually make the problem worse by disguising the fact that you are doing nothing about the problem.

Our oath to the Constitution means nothing, and frankly, Congress means nothing.

It is much warmer back in California. I am here to try to legislate.

We know that Russia cyber hacked for the purpose of affecting our election. And Congress acted.

I have a feeling I'd rather have a good relationship with the Pakistani people than with the folks that have put Dr. Afridi in jail.

Are the major political parties in Pakistan dedicated enough to democracy to work together for democracy?

Two thousand years ago, the greatest imperial power was Rome and all roads led to Rome. Today, all roads and belts lead to Beijing.

We have reduced our cost of foreign aid to Pakistan by many hundreds of millions or billions of dollars a year.

I am concerned with the efforts of elites in Islamabad to compel the use of the Urdu language nationwide.

Most egregiously, even though thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in terrorist attacks in the past decade, Pakistani security and intelligence agencies have not been playing or often are not playing a constructive role with…

Still, we have challenges. In the area of civil/military relations, the military appears to have the upper hand.

Pakistan is a highly consequential nuclear state. But all too often, we look at Pakistan as just a single inanimate entity.

On the one hand, we have seen small improvements in the economic and political developments in Pakistan.

Are we just going to talk tough or when you come back a year from now are we going to see a different chart?

Can you commit to investing 28 hours of one tax lawyer, just 28 hours of that one tax lawyer's time to start the process?

I don't want bags of cash at a marijuana dispensary down the street from my constituents.

Nothing is illegal if 50 major businesses all decide it is the right policy.

You just put a 50-percent tariff on all their exports to the United States, and you will get their attention.

If China were to end all banking and all trade, except food and medicine, that is to say, exporting food and medicine to North Korea, how big of an effect would that have on the regime?

You can do it, but how do you summon the political will to do it?

We turned them down. Vice President Cheney imagined that we could have a righteous invasion of North Korea. Bad idea now. Bad idea then.

We need a strong military to deter North Korean action, but we also need diplomacy.

We have to make sure that we don't stumble into war. And I am concerned about the rhetoric that sounds like adolescent boys at a junior high school.

It is not an enduring challenge. You just put a 50-percent tariff on all their exports to the United States, and you will get their attention.

We should not, by presidential fiat, be conducting military strikes and going to war with North Korea.