Dick Lugar: “That's an important statement, all by itself. Yes, indeed.”

The President has to want to get back into the discussions. At this point, there is not evidence that that is the case.

The balancing of trade in food by the international trading system is a major factor in hunger, and I am delighted you are working on it.

Diplomacy is not a luxury. It is essential to American national security, especially in an era of terrorism.

In testimony we have had before this committee from the Gates Foundation, they emphasize, in addition to all we have talked about thus far, the whole problem of transportation; transportation both of crops once the farm gets beyond merely…