Chris Murphy actually said...

"As much as it is possible in an open setting, my goal in this hearing is to have a frank conversation so that we can appropriately factor China's Middle East goals as we right-size American goals."

"I will just argue that we should be careful to lower our standards when it comes to the end use of this technology simply because the Chinese have no standards."

"One of the recommendations that we made as part of that report was to revitalize the Office of Subnational Diplomacy at the Department of State."

"The ability to create a more diverse permanent staffing pipeline can take some time, but you can very quickly make sure that we have a diverse set of voices representing the United States abroad."