"Continuing to increase enforcement without reforming the broken system will actually hurt the economy and American workers."
"What we often hear from colleagues on the other side of the aisle is that this issue boils down to simple math."
"Our laws need to be fixed so that they can work for our economy, our people, and our country."
"But the truth is that every day that passes is a day in which we pursue an enforcement-only approach, and that is damaging to our country."
"I will just advance my view that if something can't ever be examined by people, I am not going to rely on it."
"If we just continue with enforcement only, I think we are going to be here for years and years, wrestling with the same problem."
"I'm really glad that we have an IP Subcommittee again. I think it will help us focus on these issues."
"I think it's my opinion that bad patents are as big a problem as delayed patents."
"You may hire whoever you wish as a lawyer. That is up to you."
"The future of literacy does, I think, indeed rely a great deal on how we get right digitizing written material."
"It seemed to me the fact that potentially a majority of the written works in this country are unavailable to the culture is a problem."
"We worked so hard to try and come up with a solution. And we failed. We failed."