Jim DeMint: “I appreciate you coming by my office and our conversation I think stimulated a lot of my thinking.”

I certainly plan to oppose it, and I would encourage all of you to think.

I've had a chance to work with a lot of retail businesses. I've been in the marketing business most of my life.

We can hardly sit in judgment of your losing $2 billion. We lose twice that every day here in Washington and plan to continue to do that every day.

To paraphrase Ambassador Ryan Crocker, we need to be in the business of risk management, not risk avoidance.