Jim Risch

The administration is focused on this--hiding behind a curtain of, 'Oh, well, we are doing an investigation.'

There is absolutely no reason for India to purchase oil if indeed they want to support the world community.

I hope you will take the message back to the State Department that this is not a 'mission accomplished' moment.

We cannot stand up for Israel, we cannot stand up for American values, we are not there leading on a range of other U.S. interests.

Since then, we have run into a number of people who have said that they advised both the State Department and virtually every agency of government that it was, indeed, a terrorist attack.

I think people should understand there and should understand in the international community and the administration should understand that the other options on the table we are getting closer and closer and closer to because of the…

I was one that was deeply disappointed when the waiver was granted. I do not understand it.

I hope, as you go to the United Nations, you will take the view that America is unique and exceptional, and we are a unique and exceptional people.

This continual arena in the matters that are sovereign concerns of individual nations is concerning.

the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia is absolutely vital and essential.

I must tell you that, in my view, we should not relent on the 2-percent goal.

I would hope you would remove the word 'success' and you would remove the word 'effective' from the vocabulary when you are talking about this program.

We asked them, 'Who did this?' Because that was the question. The American people wanted to know who did this.

It is about, as the international community has said, not to pursue nuclear weapons, a nuclear capacity that could ultimately turn into a nuclear weapon, not regime change, as much as I may have issues with the regime.

One of the ways I think we need to do that is to insist that the United States withhold contributions to any U.N. entity that would grant full membership to the Palestinian Authority.

It would seem to me that that is probably something that should be looked at here inasmuch as one of the main criticisms we get of the Federal Government always is the lack of urgency.

It is shocking to hear the Federal Government is not doing duplicative work when instructed to do so by statute.

I think it is a first-rate bill and am looking forward to doing everything I can to work with her to get this passed.

that is such a great idea to review those rules and regulations.

It is unfortunate that we are having a hearing on a budget that we all know will never become law.

It ought to be your office that is going up instead of down because obviously what I hear from businesses, small, medium, and large, is that the bureaucracy is killing them, that they are being smothered by the regulatory process.

They are trying to get away from this. They are trying to get around it. They are not embracing this.

Do you think you get that done with 46 people?

Let me tell you what they tell me is their number one concern--staying in business because they cannot compete when the government tells them they have to spend money on something they do not want to spend money on.

A good example of that is Obamacare. You know, that was an almost 3000-page bill. It was given to us about 30 minutes before we voted on it.