Tom Price: “It is great that you are able to share those statistics, because what they do is show and demonstrate to the American…”

“It is great that you are able to share those statistics, because what they do is show and demonstrate to the American people that in fact there is a plan and there is progress. We hear some of our friends on the other side saying there is no plan, nothing is happening over there that is making any progress. But the three-prong plan that you know about well is: one, military, which we have talked about; the other, economic, that you have so clearly identified with the increase in GDP, a 100 percent increase in their economy, the decrease in their unemployment, which is cut by two- thirds, which is remarkable in terms of the progress there; and then there's the third arm, which is the political arm. And what we have seen, what the world has seen over the past year are three independent elections, each with growing participation by the Iraqi people. They understand what is at stake. They understand what is at stake. So for anybody to even have any sensibility about saying that there just isn't a plan or has not been any progress, just doesn't make sense to me.”