"mission success has got to be the defining criteria as to how we go forward."
"My personal belief is the board should be reconvened and--because I think it's the group who's, you know, most formulated to assess the implementation."
"I think it should be by probably this--sometime in September this year is when it should be done."
"Is there some penalty that a company should have to pay if indeed they go way over budget and spend all this time?"
"One of the axioms of diplomatic or military strategy is that you want to unite your allies and divide your enemies."
"The intelligence community has been clear and consistent. Russia did, indeed, meddle in our elections."
"I find this effort of working cooperatively with the EU and other major economies as coherent and workable."
"You seem to be saying we are in a high stakes competition with China, that China does not accept this rules-based international order."
"I commend the President of the United States for having indicated that he was open to that prospect in the last State of the Union Address."
"I think if we were part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and we knitted that together with TTIP, we would be in an extremely strong position in terms of our economic competitive position toward China."
"I believe the administration needs to do a better job in explaining its trade strategy to Congress."
"A response to Beijing's economic aggression, in order to be sustainable, is going to require the buy-in of Congress and us, the American people."