"Everywhere you look, name the human rights abuse, Xi Jinping is excelling in it."
"We do not advance our goals on the backs of little kids in the DR Congo."
"If you want to counter China, fund Ukraine. Beat Putin. That is the best that we can do to counter China."
"The only question is whether we're going to do it the smart way or with our hand tied behind our backs."
"This pause was dumped on American businesses with zero warning and zero stakeholder engagement."
"Stopping the lawful exportation of firearms does absolutely nothing to prevent international gun crimes."
"Rather than facilitate Commerce and help our businesses compete against China, BIS is targeting American gun exporters for crimes they did not commit."
"To right this wrong, of course, I introduced the Protect American Gun Exporters Act."
"I believe that accountability ensures mistakes in the past are not repeated."
"Should we have gone after bin Laden in 2001 in that winter when we had him more or less from an intel standpoint? Yes. Should we have? I think yes."
"That was total BS, and I would like to say the actual words, but I'm trying to not; I'm restraining myself."
"The State Department should have been talking to us, and they were not."