The sanctions have not prevented a high level of economic growth.

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

this regime won't even agree to a freeze of their nuclear program unless you have something relatively, at least halfway, toward regime-threatening sanctions.

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…

And we are not doing enough to force them to change their behavior, which is to punish North Korea a little bit for being a little bit too flamboyant in their actions but to make sure that the regime can survive.

I want to know what we did do and what tools you need to move forward so that these sanctions really do work.

Soon, North Korea will have more nuclear weapons than they feel is absolutely necessarily to defend themselves from us.

we are not doing enough to force them to change their behavior, which is to punish North Korea a little bit

So 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…

When we are talking about the structure of the Fed, we see a dramatically antidemocratic institution exercising governmental power.

It has to be a buy-in from the world community, because this is something that is affecting all of the world community.

In fact, she has persuaded me to note for the record that FINRA is a self-regulatory organization that was originally created in 1938 by the superbly named Maloney Act.