"Ultimately, it is going to have to come down to us caring more about the country than we do being here."
"It is essential, with us having a $22 trillion debt and continuing deficit spending, that we begin to figure out where the problems are."
"China...are stealing our innovation, to the tune of, some would say, $2 to $600 billion."
"Every year we have deficit spending. We're looking at $22 trillion of debt, which is also a national security issue."
"If we keep pouring money into this bucket without shoring up, I mean, we're in a sense funding their innovation as much as we are ours."
"I think it was 27 universities recently. I mean, they're stealing everything from shipping secrets, to missile secrets, to fertilizer recipes so that they can have better production in agriculture."
"How do we make sure that the money we do--we are allocating is going toward rightful purposes?"
"It's so important that we remain the world's leader in innovation."
"I think this proposal that I am proposing is one step to us being able to have the information to make those kind of decisions."
"These, freedom-and federalism-hating politicians can't seem to help themselves."
"the ACLU would have to be quiet on any kind of legislation they might want to comment on."