Sam Farr: “My district is known as the salad bowl capital of the world, and we grow something like 70 percent of all the lettuce in…”

History has shown us what we can get by retreating into a defensive, isolationist crouch.

My goal for U.S. aid is to achieve a level of effectiveness that every time we provide aid to a region or country it is with the final aim of transitioning them from trade to aid, like we have done in South Korea.

We will take our chances down the road, even if that may mean a much steeper cost in terms of American blood and American treasure.

If you want stable democracy and you are a highly religious society, it simply won't work without religious freedom.