Garret Graves: “I am, once again, very, very sorry for your loss. Anything we do that loses sight that this is about people, it is about…”

Closed primaries, he said, distort democracy. They distort free markets.

I don't have any more speakers, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.

The reason that we purchased Alaska was largely the geography, as well as the natural resources, and the abundance of that State is profound and just critically important.

I think that is fair, and I think they deserve it.