Bipartisanship always comes as a result of negotiation and compromise and understanding that you are putting a larger interest, which is a national interest, ahead of a more focused interest.

if we do nothing, the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will become insolvent.

I believe that if reasonable minds can come together and forget the partisanship, we can figure this thing out.

The President's proposal takes care of more than a third of the cost of the SGR replacement reform.

The bottom line here is that this must be done and it can be done.

The problem obviously is real statistically, as Dr. Rivlin said, under almost any imaginable set of scenarios.

DIRECTV has an incentive to charge them higher prices than they would charge to anybody that they would not compete against.

Generally, regional sports networks are the most in demand the highest-priced programming.

What they have adopted is they have said that existing program access rules are not enough.

American people ultimately they don't want us to go recklessly picking fights everywhere around the world.

I think that the administration's pulling back from global leadership more generally has contributed significantly to that view.

I would rather fight them over there than here.

Thanks again to you and Congressman Sherman for convening this hearing and trying to focus us back on this real threat to our security.

It requires the discrediting of violent Islamist extremism as an ideology, and let me underscore here the enemy is violent Islamist extremism.

We have to fight that and come back at it on the ground of Islam.

Let me say finally that ultimate success in this struggle depends not simply on the death of particular terrorist leaders or the destruction of particular terrorist groups, important though that is.

Assad is not a good man. He is a bad man. He is a brutal dictator.

I think that Syria today is rapidly becoming the most threatening terrorist sanctuary in the world.

By our Declaration of Independence we were given a mandate, a responsibility, a kind of destiny to carry that message which was universal human rights and there is no people in the world that don't respond to that.

we have got to--we can't pivot away from any one region in the world because they all matter to our security and our prosperity.

Congress can do more, broadcasting can do more but honestly it has to start with the number one American, who is the President.

I was amazed and moved by the families saying, please make sure that our son, daughter, husband, whatever, didn't die in vain.

if you are talking about homeland security, you have got to in the post 9/11 age protect your borders, all of them, air, sea, land.

Because of the failure, in my view, of American leadership, the term 'radical Islam' or 'Islam extremism' is not mentioned in U.S. policy, which is quite astounding.

If we don't at least maintain a presence, we don't help the freedom fighters in Syria.