"Addressing the over-lawyered nature of the SEC is important because there is a perception of regulatory competence throughout the financial sector."
"There have been many failures at the SEC over the last several years, and despite our hearing testimony from people like Harry Markopolos about the over-lawyered culture at the SEC and the 'investigat..."
"It is the overall decision by the State Department to not live within the constraints put by the Congress."
"There was undoubtedly the case that there were people in Pakistan who knew where bin Laden was."
"But we provided the schools in Pakistan, or helped do so."
"the brainwashing and indoctrination of this type of ideology so early in life, when you are teaching people to commit jihad, and giving them that absolutist viewpoint, which now this particular Boko H..."
"Our inability to get the government in Pakistan to shut down those 600 schools over the last generation is something that is beyond me."
"What has created the radicalism is the fact that we have not stopped these particular people from indoctrinating kids."
"I had a Muslim governor of a northern Nigerian province tell me that he was very, very concerned with the change in the indigenous Islam of Nigeria."
"Do you think it would be helpful if that became sort of a strategic imperative?"
"if China were bothered by North Korea's ICBMs, if it were bothered by North Korea's dual-track nuclear program, it would stop subsidizing them."