George Lemieux: “I have a great concern that the information that you all are using to make these decisions is not accurate.”

It's not only important at an economic level, but it has enormous strategic consequences as well.

America has too often been chasing the future rather than working to shape it.

Asia is where the action is going forward, and we need to be a player, not on the sidelines.

We can't say we're going to just freeze spending. We have to cut spending.