Mark Meadows actually said...

"As long as they are sending billions of dollars in here, making a living on our economy, and we are never doing--we are never using that leverage I don't see this changing."

"I don't like to employ sanctions. But there is a number of other tools that the Goldman Act allows the State Department to employ that they haven't done."

"I made a living in soft diplomacy so I understand the benefits of soft diplomacy but I also understand when it doesn't work."

"The frustration becomes is--and the reason for the Goldman Act originally was the type of soft diplomacy that you have described."