Brad Sherman

Their counterargument on all this is they can't give us Dr. Afridi, because, oh my God, it will be some terrible circumstance in their country.

What if we cut half of all aid to Pakistan until Dr. Afridi and his family is here in the United States, what would be the reaction of the Pakistani Government?

The evidence is not encouraging.

Those millions of displaced people and hundreds of thousands of deaths could not occur if Assad didn't have allies.

I fear that that is becoming increasingly true in Turkey.

Governments need to answer the question, why is it legitimate for them to rule?

Democracy is the only system that can answer that question, and it can allow for peaceful succession and a role for opponents.

The only way to prevent the next bailout is to make sure that too-big-to-fail is too-big-to-exist.

This makes as much sense as a baseball league where the umpire is selected and paid by one of the teams.

Free market capitalism does recognize that at times a bank will fail. But it needs to fail as an independent entity.

I have had the regulators here and I begged them and implored them to allow banks to make prime plus eight loans.

If I could buy stock in all the garages I would sell the stock in the whole Dow.

We've got a lot of dead Americans as a result of this catch and release program.

The fact is, much as we like to fight as Democrats and Republicans, the policy has been the same in both administrations.

The prior administration did release more terrorists than the current administration.

We remain committed to preserving Taiwan's democracy and ensuring the freedom of the people on Taiwan from coercion, threats, and intimidation.

Their argument is that some other government that they don't recognize once drew a line claiming something.

You can be sure they will accept it if they happen to win.

We firmly believe that it is in the United States' interests to ratify, and we expect all parties to the Convention to fulfill their obligations under it.

They have demonstrated that if the ruling goes against them, they will not feel it binding on them.

It is not about the rocks. It is about the rules.

They are not willing to put their money where they want us to put our money.

I hope to get a clear answer.

One way to defend Taiwan would be to spend a few hundred billion dollars on more naval assets; but there is something else that would be just as effective, probably more effective, and that is with a clear law that would immediately…

There is only one significantly inhabited island in dispute in the South and East China Sea called Taiwan