"So it is convenient to cite a 2008 report, but not convenient to cite a 2009 report. Is that correct?"
"We are being awfully selective in the reporting we want to cite."
"Why are we going to hinder the kinds of aid that they need?"
"One in every 47 pregnancies in Haiti turns fatal during delivery."
"A wholesale cutting of funding to an entire program is not a path forward."
"Please think about how all of us felt when that devastating earthquake took place."
"The U.S.-Taiwan relationship is a very important one. It's our ninth largest trading partner."
"we are committed by statute to the defense of Taiwan, are we not?"
"the interest of the United States is the maintenance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait"
"it's not just peace and stability in the Straits, it is explicit in the statutory commitment to the defense capability of Taiwan?"
"there's nothing in the Taiwan Relations Act about that"
"I was just in Taiwan. I didn't meet a single defense official, from the President on down, who said no, no, no."