Our values of openness allow them to invest, the Chinese to invest here, but when we try to reciprocate there are all kinds of impediments to that.

This is an order that I think has benefited not just these countries, by the way, but the Chinese people, for whom access to the American marketplace has really expanded economic opportunity.

It will be critical to bringing home and implementing this agreement once it is finally negotiated.

There are extraordinary opportunities to which we need to pay close attention.

We are going to negotiate to get a high quality, high standard agreement, and that is what we are still after.

We have a dictator with nuclear weapons who has just executed his uncle.

But while open trade has benefited the Chinese people, the Chinese Communist Party is not all that enthusiastic about expanding civil liberties.

But again, our official policy is we do not recognize the zone and by and large we are going to ignore it?

Asia today accounts for about 33 percent of U.S. trade.

I intend to be here for the next little bit--under an hour--sharing this time on the floor with you to discuss some of the issues before us, particularly the pending issue before us of nominations and the concern we have about that. People…

I believe our commercial sector for weather forecasting plays a real vital role, both today and in the future.

Weather forecasting is important. We rely on it for daily decisions that we make in our private lives, but also in the commercial sector.