Mitt Romney

We cannot raise the economy of Latin America to a level that people do not want to come here.

this policy is a failure and has to change.

I think we need to understand that what we are dealing with now--the nature of the denuclearization challenge right now is not nonproliferation.

At the same time, North Korea has become, at least in my view, more belligerent and more malevolent in the last year or two.

I recognize--we all do--that the South Korean War--the Korean War was, rather, at the outset of the Cold War and in some respects we are facing another Cold War today, not with the former Soviet Union so much as with an assertive China.

Spending money around the world to alleviate things that we wish would go away, but we are never going to get there, would only make sense, in my view, if it has a strategic significance for us.

We cannot raise the economy of Latin America to a level that people do not want to come here.

We think we can solve the problems of health, of food, of energy, the list goes on and on.

this policy is a failure and has to change.

It seems to be that we have gone from pillar to post, guardrail to guardrail.

We need to consider something to deter further missile testing and we do not have anything that is doing that right now.

At the same time, North Korea has become, at least in my view, more belligerent and more malevolent in the last year or two.

I think that is the reason why we have not been able to do it is that our perspective on trying to counter their action has kind of inhibited us.

I think we need to be more--we need to take these lessons to heart and actually start to pull that process apart instead of looking for the big deal, at the end of the road kind of agreements.

I think that is the fundamental problem with our approach today is that we still continue to hold on to this notion that we can--that we have time.

as Senator Romney referenced.

the DFC effort not to say, just how can we alleviate poverty around the world, and how--because that is a task monumentally beyond our financial capacity, to instead say which things are specifically in the interest, the national security…

The U.S. commitment to this alliance is ironclad.

The sanctions regime has been subject to a lot of leakage.

It is hard to imagine a place which is more technologically advanced than South Korea, that provides more products to the world than South Korea.

I believe our strategic interests and national security revolve around, if you will, China, Russia, authoritarian States versus ourselves.

I think we need to understand that what we are dealing with now--the nature of the denuclearization challenge right now is not nonproliferation.

There has not been any allegation yet, any conduct which reaches the constitutional standard for impeachment.

I thank Senator Manchin. We have collaborated on quite a number of things together. It has been a great experience and a joy for me. I thank Leader Schumer for beginning this process and making sure that we reach a favorable and bipartisan…

If the objective of this hearing was to calm our nerves and give us more confidence that everything is fine, it has not done that. It has underscored the fright that exists in my soul that this is a very dangerous development.