Mazie Hirono

Reaching an agreement will require months or even years of hard negotiations.

We all share the goal of a permanent, verifiable, denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

For the first time, a sitting United States President met with the leader of North Korea.

I frankly think that he created an environment where there's a counter to the kind of misogynistic, you know, admitted sexual predator kind of behavior that he's engaged in.

If there's some process by which particularly in the House that there's some way that they can gain jurisdiction over the President and then I say go to it.

I have been contemplating and in fact it was that very day that also and call upon in for his resignation because just the litany of all of these women coming forward and I'm grateful that they did who accused him, including one who has…

Donald Trump is a misogynist, compulsive liar, and admitted sexual predator. Attacks on Kirsten are the latest example that no one is safe from this bully. He must resign.

How does AT&L assure that programs have effectively addressed corrosion from the very beginning and involved corrosion subject matter experts throughout the life of that program?

Since the establishment of the Department of Defense in 1947, the procurement process has been studied, enhanced and improved over the many decades.

Corrosion costs DOD $20 billion/yr.

The DOD runs a $1 billion annual small business innovation research (SBIR) program that has successfully invested in high tech businesses

Should our policies reflect that fact, that climate change is real?

You are both going to be working in an Administration where the President denies the reality of climate change.

Is climate change real? Yes or no? You are scientists. Is climate change real?

What I cannot accept, what I cannot accept, is unequal treatment to the U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico.

I'm very interested in how we can be, how that can help Hawaii.

I take it if the investigation discovers any wrongdoing there will be prosecutions or appropriate actions to follow.

If in fact this body of Congress wants to contemplate the development of oil and gas in the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, it should be done with the best science, the most current science available.

We should not be considering whether to exploit national treasures like the Arctic Refuge to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

I did introduce legislation that would encourage, through grants, et cetera, mentorships and other programmatic ways, institutionalized ways of focusing on women and minorities in the technology area.

Not everybody gets to be a Girl Scout. I certainly was not.

Well, what are some very specific ways, though, that we can teach children to be creative and innovative?

I can tell you, without any reservation, that sexual harassment and more is not limited to just the entertainment industry.

I'm very concerned about the direction our country is headed given the sharp increase in anti-immigrant rhetoric I've witnessed over the last year.

It's an amazing thing about our country--that no matter the many challenges we face, the United States is still the place where immigrants yearn to be.