Dick Lugar

Given global financial linkages, we cannot achieve a full economic recovery in isolation from the rest of the world.

I look forward to your report back to us on steps we might take to work with the administration in strengthening this relationship after the President returns.

I appreciated your expression of strong support for the Cardin-Lugar amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill which required transparency of extractive industries payments to governments.

the unfortunate fact is that Chinese exports to Brazil have increased significantly, and thus, China has overtaken the United States as Brazil's leading trading partner.

As a part of the financial reform bill, a very small amendment was included, called the Cardin-Lugar amendment.

Surely there are tens of billions of dollars out there, albeit acquired in a strange way by the former government, but regardless this ought to be Egyptian money.

You mentioned in your opening statement United States efforts to freeze the assets of Muammar Gaddafi and his family, along with those of the Government of Libya.

We were not succeeding, we were not failing. We were just marking time.

The strategy that President Obama adopted after very serious consideration... was not a good position to find the United States of America in.

We have convinced our NATO allies... to put in a lot more troops and a lot more civilian assets.

We are certainly backing off from the commitments to food security, the Feed the Future initiative that Senator Lugar referred to.

People who have been alienated from their governments with no political power are beginning to believe that they have a personal stake in their country's direction.

We have also seen a complete dismissal of the work on climate change and energy security, which I think is a grave mistake.

We are leaving them a fighting chance for a democratic future, which is not bred in the bone at all.

I sense a drift with regard to the Afghanistan situation, with regard to Pakistan.

I look forward to her thoughts on State Department and foreign policy priorities for the coming year.

We are in a competition for influence with China.

Our foreign policy in recent times has been characterized by the fact that we were attacked by al-Qaeda and therefore we responded by going into Afghanistan.

It would not appear to me that we have been particularly aggressive in our own policies or our own organization of this.

It is difficult to imagine almost any scenario where known factions in North Korea taking over would make things better.

if I were a North Korean Ministry of Security officer, I'd be very nervous, at this point, at what I see happening in this society.

First of all, is there any information on this matter coming from the North Koreans?

Proliferation of nuclear materials and missile materials coming out of North Korea is one of our major concerns.

the Japanese, broadly, have indicated that they did not pursue nuclear weapons because they had confidence in the United States

Well, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.