"And we require it in other areas. They need to understand us every bit as much as we need to understand them."
"Well, a defensive action of some sort emanating from the target has an impact on the people trying to take the target."
"I understand that if we were to put embarked military security on ships at certain points that there's a wider group of international associations that would be comfortable with that, but that's not w..."
"It's not necessarily best practices that we would define if we were looking at this from a different viewpoint in terms of putting armed security people on these ships."
"We're obviously concerned about that, but principally concerned about American shipping."
"I mean, this is not that old when Captain Phillips saved the Alabama."
"Hopefully, we'll come to a conclusion on that sometime in the next 10 days."
"To me, it makes a tremendous amount of sense to get small groups of highly trained people to work in a synergistic fashion with the military."
"this is so clear, I think to everyone, that we all have an inherent right to self-defense in international waters."
"I think there's going to be a more militarily oriented hearing next week on this as well."
"The bureaucracy that would come out of last year's bill was--it looked like something you would get out of the old Soviet Union."