"After the United States has given so much in blood and treasure, what do we have to show for it?"
"I would really urge you, for all of the analysis that has been done it would be immensely helpful for us to have a conversation not just about going forward, but if we can't acknowledge that we have s..."
"So what is the total amount? As you analyze it today, what is the total amount spent by this country on Afghanistan?"
"After almost 13 years, trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives lost, this news was met with the mixed reactions that we have come to expect when we talk about Afghanistan."
"How do you enforce that without going back and checking the computer of the person who transferred it?"
"We are not making it more difficult; we are making it easier for people to access the content that they need while at the same time protecting the copyright holders."
"Expanding the first sale online would greatly limit the creators' abilities."
"Mandating a resale right for Internet-distributed content."
"I hope as we go forward, this will be the opportunity to pursue further this notion that an Elmore Leonard book that one gives to someone and--versus copies of that, is the same as a musical copy."
"I think it would basically be trampling all over contract law."
"the fundamental principle behind copyright is that intellectual property rights enable creators to learn a return on their investment and incentivizes them to make it available widely so that that ret..."