Johnny Isakson actually said...

I think your role can be essential because the State Department and the soft power of our country is still the biggest strength we have got ...

when you get to $20 trillion, you are talking about real money, as Everett Dirksen said a few years ago in Washington.

There is no place in the world that we are better prepared with manpower and investment and infrastructure than in South Korea.

one of our biggest challenges as a country--and we got lots of them, but certainly our debt and our deficit are both big problems.