"Public diplomacy represents an indispensable component of any viable foreign policy."
"Did we make a mistake by changing the focus and accessibility of American Centers and what is the future there?"
"Our ranking member on the full committee, Senator Lugar, has championed reversing this retrenchment of the American Centers."
"The decision was made around 1998, 1999, to move those within the Embassy and, as you might expect, the attendance at these centers dropped considerably."
"What strategy would we have to find some more?"
"I understand what Senator Kaufman and you are saying about expanding the budget. I also worry about the national debt."
"I completely agree with Senator Murray about Yucca Mountain, but the President's comments about a new generation of nuclear power..."
"I think it is important that the American people know that the so-called stimulus funds to stimulate jobs in America, being put on the credit cards of our children and grandchildren, are actually stim..."
"Most of the so-called good, high quality, new manufacturing jobs are going to Asia where labor costs are a fraction of the U.S. salaries."
"I am concerned that we will discover that China is the one who is getting the U.S. stimulus dollars for this project."
"We need to be trading on an economically beneficial basis with partners like China, but stimulus dollars going to China and Malaysia and elsewhere around the world are not meeting the test of stimulat..."
"It is heartening to see that this proposed budget takes into account the public's input."