"The worst part of our current trade policy is permanent MFN for China."
"It is simply absurd to think that we have to take bad trade policy that is temporary and say we have improved it by making it permanent."
"It is time for the advocates of these agreements to talk in terms of the size of our trade deficit, which is the largest in history."
"I personally believe that over these many decades, the Federal Reserve has gotten a free pass."
"Not only do we want to know about policy--and a lot will be discussed today about the particular policies and how to guide that policy--but one thing we should not forget about is the nature of money."
"I think if you had all Presidential appointees and Senate confirmation, that would be okay."
"it seemed like there was a general consensus that we do have a problem and we have to deal with it"
"It is a Federal offense to import fish, wildlife or plants in violation of any foreign law."
"I was appalled, you know, that this could happen in the United States of America, that we would send in Federal agents from the Fish and Wildlife with automatic weapons to invade a company that hires,..."
"I was aghast when I learned that what they were accused of was not even breaking a U.S. law, they are accused of breaking a foreign law."
"This is ridiculous. I could not believe that we have a law on our books that says we are to obey all foreign laws."
"It really smacks at our sovereignty, it smacks at the concept that we create the laws in our country."