"If we have been playing this game for--I don't want to call it a game. If we have been--our foreign policy, which I think is way off track, it is askew, it is a broken compass, because we don't have strong national leadership directing this for what America stands for."
"They take money--these countries take money from us with one hand, and then cover up their eyes with the other and ignore the problem."
"The reason I bring that up is there is a case right now where we have a guy--they went after the contractor."
"I mean, these things just don't seem like common sense."
"I get the same feedback from the producers in our area, that the Department of Labor treats our producers like they are guilty and needed to be proven innocent."
"Because we hear all the time you can't fire a government employee. And certainly--I was on Foreign Affairs when Ms. Clinton said you can't fire anybody in the government."
"There has almost been like a rabid response--I have been around agriculture since I was 16 years of age, and we have seen just a ramp-up in the amount of investigations with this Administration."
"I think we need to kind of refocus and do a paradigm shift on how we handle our foreign aid."
"I would like to see us do more of that instead of trying to tell them how to run their country."
"We cannot have it both ways. Either we are for democracy or we are not, and we need to have clarity about that in this body."
"a democracy, as Ben Franklin pointed out, is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch. The sheep always loses."