Paul S. Sarbanes: “Over the past few years, there have been a number of cases where firms or individuals have been charged with obstruction…”

There has been an incredible deterioration in recent years in the U.S. trade deficit.

Well, it's not very private counsel when you go on the national media shows, appear publicly, and answer questions in that forum.

This deficit requires us Americans to borrow about $2 billion from foreigners every working day. No expert I know believes that this is sustainable.

I mean, something's wrong with the set of policies we're pursuing, it seems to me, if we're going to have the kind of erosion in the trade balance that we have seen.