01/25/2011
https://www.congress.gov...
"In other words, pirates attacked less than one-half of 1 percent."
"Today we hear from representatives of the Obama administration, while in their day, 200 years ago, pirate attacks off Africa were a problem for then the new Thomas Jefferson administration."
"I've never seen such a mess in my life. You have the U.N., African Union, AU, and the EU."
"But now it becomes a capacity problem. Particularly, we now find out we're going to be reducing our number of ships to 300, and I think perhaps this might argue for a change in that policy."