"I support ARPA-E getting a significant increase and think it has shown, both in its strategy and its focus, a real innovative approach."
"But we need technology development."
"I think that's critical, as you discussed before, to creating the kind of draw that will sustain manufacturing here."
"I'm grateful for your service and appreciate the direction you're taking the Department."
"Counterfeiting and, in particular, online copyright infringement and the piracy of intellectual property is a very real and dramatically growing problem for us here and overseas."
"We have to balance America's historic role as a Nation that promotes free expression."
"Foreign governments and, frankly, their comparable law enforcement entities."
"Right. Then my next question, in trying to strike that right balance between free speech protection and promotion of free speech and blocking outright piracy..."
"Global piracy is an enormously difficult thing that is draining billions of dollars of resources."
"I am grateful for the opportunity to join you."
"I think will help contribute to the role that I also view this committee as having a central place to play in, which is sustaining America's leading role in innovation."
"Thank you for convening this important hearing on the transition from a military-led to a civilian-led role for the United States in Iraq, going forward."