"I don't want to be the person who has to answer the next generation why is the Africa-Chinese trade the dominant trade in that part of the world and we don't even have a slice of it?"
"This zero sum gain view of the United States' role in the world, I would argue, is very dangerous."
"The question is, is it effective? Are we losing this battle or are we winning it, and what are the metrics that get us to winning?"
"We have got to be bottom line focused here, including the State Department. Are we making progress or are we falling behind?"
"Not lack of effort, not lack of commitment but we are losing this game."
"Mr. Rohrabacher, my lowest priority in the budget is defunding Obamacare."
"We have got to look at benchmarks. We have got to look at best practices and try to encourage them elsewhere."
"But for years we weren't catching the fact that people were dumping."
"One wonders what could go wrong with that."
"When Ronald Reagan was going to Iceland, he invoked a Russian expression, dovre noprovre; trust, but verify. It looks to me, in this case, that OPM fell down on the job of the verify piece."
"How are we going to correct it moving forward?"