Brad Sherman

The easiest thing, of course, is just tariffs on their imported goods.

If the U.S. Government determined that they wanted as a matter of policy to conduct economic espionage, they could do it.

We don't play offense. China hacks.

I think it would have less political impact in Russia, although that regime has to be a little shaky.

We have the capacity through cyber and other means to identify which princeling owns which chateaus.

It is much easier for bureaucracies to say we want money for defense.

The Train and Equip Program has been a failure.

Assad will give 1,000 people with barrel bombs and have the good taste to deny it.

At the beginning, I said that the Shiite Alliance was more dangerous, more evil, has killed more innocent Muslims, killed more Americans than ISIS has.

No one in the administration is saying that everything is okay. The Shiite Alliance is more dangerous than ISIS and more evil.

I would hope that banks would be less free to rip off consumers and less free to rip off the U.S. taxpayer through some new bailout program.

The other problem I have with this rule is it is written by economists who have this absurd belief that everyone else in the country is an economist.

If you are going to provide more protection and less freedom, you would think you would do that for my 86-year-old mother rather than for me.

It is absurd for us to have two different rules.

It is not our job here to grade the President of the United States or his predecessors.

We are not here to live in a fantasy world.

I want to assure you, Bank Melli is the stinkiest bath water out there. This is not a beautiful baby.

Certainly, one source of terrorism is Iran. We are entering into this deal in which we are supposed to waive the sanctions that were enacted to deal with their nuclear program.

If you vote for a government that meets in a building and discusses laws that will be ignored, you might as well vote in a beauty contest.

Democracy in the Philippines doesn't mean anything unless people can vote for a government that is willing to control what happens on the ground.

Ms. Bautista, the problems for land grabbing in the Philippines, are they widespread throughout the country or focused only in some of the provinces?

Critical to that economic development is the rule of law.

America has an interest in the economic and political development of Southeast Asian countries.

I think field hearings are an important part of what our committee does.

The enemies of ISIS are more dangerous and more evil than ISIS.