Bob Corker

For Congress to support the TPP, we need to be assured that our industries are competing with Japanese industries on a level playing field.

I wish to thank the Senator from Wyoming for his outstanding leadership on this issue. I know it is something he has worked on for a long time, and finally we have it on the floor for debate. I am a strong supporter of the Marketplace…

we have a major humanitarian and political crisis on our hands.

I wrote an op-ed this morning that was about our role in Syria.

I think the movement toward self-sufficiency and dealing with people in their own countries is a great--

I like the thrust that you have with ag. I like the thrust that you have with USAID Forward.

I think Secretary Kerry also has acknowledged that that is our goal.

You know, the special investigator inspector that we had in Iraq talked about just recently that he does not see us as any more prepared to do development in similar circumstances today than we were in 2003.

I know we had a huge amount of problems in Iraq. We are going to have probably even greater problems once people get through looking at what we did in Afghanistan.

One area that I think we are not doing a good job in leveraging is in trade.

I also welcome the fact that your agency talked about most Caribbean and Latin American countries graduating from aid by the year 2030.

I do applaud you, as the chairman just did, on your movements in the food assistance areas.

I think you have been in the middle of a political football game that has been taking place.

I do not know why anybody would want to change something that is working so well.

It seemed that when Secretary Clinton was up here, there was a standard by which things like this were judged.

You certainly want to manage it very carefully as a key counterparty credit risk.

It seems to me that the national interests that we have in Syria are that we do not want al-Qaeda or other extremists to control the country.

I have to say I am very encouraged with the beginning of your tenure and the efforts that you have underway.

I do appreciate what you have been doing since you have been in your position.

I really do believe you are off to a very good start, and I have high hopes for the major policy issues that you are dealing with coming to resolution.

I think that there is a real chance of nuclear proliferation if we do not deal with this issue.

What I would like to focus on if we could--I mean, I will take your comments. That is fine. I do not want to spend 5 minutes talking about the past. What I would like to do is talk about the future.

I know you will look at this in a judicious way. But it seems to me that we might want to establish some different standards.

I think sometimes we forget about the tremendous public service that people provide for our country.

I recognize that we really have no good options available to us in Syria.