I hope that you can commit to answering the QFRs for this hearing within 30 days. Can you do that?

I would hope that you and the Secretary would convince the President that a muscular foreign policy requires a fully staffed State Department.

Can you put those rumors to rest?

Can we count on that being filled fairly soon?

I have been doing this for 20 years. And for 20 years...our policy has been a tremendous success, a success for the political class in Washington.

How has the North Korean economy grown by 50 percent?

I want to commend you, Mr. Chairman, for the more realistic objective you have in this bill.

We keep banging the table and saying we are going to get this regime to give up all its nuclear weapons.

Too-big-to-fail is too-big-to-exist.

We need lower interest rates to create the labor shortage necessary to create major increases in wages in our country.

For 20 years, administrations have been coming here and telling me that we don't have to make any concessions to North Korea.

We have one country that has over $1 billion in Saran wrapped hard currency. And we have another country that, if the Assistant Secretary's work is done well, will need $1 billion in currency and will have quite a number of nuclear weapons…